Environmental
Dec. 23, 2006
Manufacturers Beware!
FOCUS COLUMN - By Matthew T. Heartney - It's not too late to rethink holding manufacturers liable when others misuse their products.
By Matthew T. Heartney
Press coverage of the city of Modesto's recent environmental lawsuit against several chemical manufacturers focused largely on the eye-popping magnitude of the $181 million jury verdict, which the trial court greatly scaled back. But equally worthy of attention is the city's novel legal theory. Faced with soil and groundwater contamination from the widely ...
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