From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:03:38 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: Court rebuffs Camp Lejeune (NC) families |
U.S. court rebuffs Marine Corps families in polluted water case By Pamela MacLean Reuters October 15, 2014In a defeat for families claiming they were sickened by groundwater contamination many years ago at a U.S. Marine Corps base in North Carolina, a federal appeals court has rejected an attempt by the state's legislature to extend a time limit for filing pollution- related lawsuits. As a result, families involved in 10 lawsuits will be unlikely to collect damages for alleged injuries suffered at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, although a lawyer for the plaintiffs said they were considering further appellate options. ...The federal circuit ruled the state lawmakers’ action in August was a new law, not a clarification of existing law, and so could not be applied retroactively to latent diseases that may be undiagnosed for years past the state’s 10-year limit. ... For the entire article, seehttp://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/15/us-usa-environment-lejeune- idUSKCN0I42EQ20141015 -- Lenny Siegel Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight a project of the Pacific Studies Center 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org | |
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