[CPEO-BIF] "HP companies counter Stanford lawsuit over chemical contamination, " Palo Alto, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

HP companies counter Stanford lawsuit over chemical contamination
	

by Holden Foreman 
Stanford Daily (CA)
May 11, 2018

On Feb. 23, Stanford filed a federal lawsuit against multiple Hewlett-Packard companies, seeking millions in damages for HP’s purported chemical contamination of “substantial portions” of 1601 S. California Avenue - land that Stanford owns - during a grading project sometime between 1970 and 1999. The named corporations in the original lawsuit are Hewlett-Packard Company, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and Agilent Technologies.

Now, Stanford faces a counterclaim from Agilent and HP companies, which jointly issued a 20-page response to the University’s claims, as well as a counterclaim, in the San Jose U.S. District Court on April 30.

In the counterclaim, Agilent and HP companies stated that Granger Associates, a former tech company that held the property between 1962 and 1970, discharged hazardous polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and trichloroethylene (TCE) on the land.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.stanforddaily.com/2018/05/11/hp-companies-counter-stanford-lawsuit-over-chemical-contamination/

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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