[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: Court rebuffs Camp Lejeune (NC) families

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

U.S. court rebuffs Marine Corps families in polluted water case

By Pamela MacLean
Reuters
October 15, 2014

In 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, see
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/15/us-usa-environment-lejeune- 
idUSKCN0I42EQ20141015

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Lenny Siegel
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