[CPEO-BIF] "A lawsuit claiming General Mills exposed people to TCE was given class-action status, " Minneapolis, Minnesota

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

SE Como residents’ claims combining
A lawsuit claiming General Mills exposed people to TCE was given class-action status.

By Alida Tieberg [3]
Minnesota Daily
March 9, 2015 

Residents of the Southeast Como neighborhood were granted a class-action lawsuit against General Mills, attorneys announced on Wednesday, following their concerns of a potentially harmful vapor seeping into neighborhood homes.

Three residents were looking to sue the company last fall, claiming a former General Mills facility on Hennepin Avenue dumped TCE, also known as trichloroethylene, and put their health and homes’ value at risk. The claims were given class-action status, uniting the property owners and their claims against the company, according to a court order by U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank on Feb. 27.

Jackie Milbrandt, one of the three residents, said receiving the class-action certification was a good step toward resolving their concerns.

“This gives me a huge amount of hope that actual cleanup that needs to happen is actually going to move into action,” she said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mndaily.com/news/metro-state/2015/03/08/se-como-residents%E2%80%99-claims-combining

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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