In a huge victory for the people of Charleston, West Virginia, defendants responsible for toxic tap water caused by a chemical spill settled all claims against them for $151 million on the day before trial. Stag Liuzza represented a class of more than 224,000 individuals, 7,300 businesses and ...
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Judge refuses to remove defendants from landfill case
Stag Liuzza, LLC is representing the Estill County Fiscal Court in a lawsuit against Cory Hoskins, BES services, Advanced TENORM services and Advanced Disposal for disposing of radioactive waste in the Blue Ridge Landfill, breaching the terms of their contract. An individual and two of his companies ...
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Judge denies request to dismiss lawsuit against Estill County landfill
Stag Liuzza, LLC is representing the Estill County Fiscal Court in a lawsuit against Cory Hoskins, BES services, Advanced TENORM services and Advanced Disposal for disposing of radioactive waste in the Blue Ridge Landfill, breaching the terms of their contract. A judge has denied a request to throw ...
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Here’s Flint’s best chance for a lawsuit
We know thousands were exposed to poisoned water. Now it’s on the lawyers to prove that citizens suffered because government failed. In this Washington Post article, Stuart Smith explains the challenges facing Flint residents to prove they were poisoned by their tap water. Despite these challenges, ...
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The Life And Career Of Stuart H. Smith, And His Case With Oil Giant Chevron
Born in the Deep South in the early 1960s, Stuart Smith could not have anticipated what his career path would ultimately become. This article discusses Stuart Smith’s formative years before becoming a trial lawyer who would ultimately form a partnership with Mike Stag to take on big polluters. From ...
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WV Residents Can Pursue Chemical Spill Claims As Class
Federal Judge Copenhaver of the Southern District of West Virginia certified a class of thousands of individuals and businesses impacted by the Elk River chemical spill against West Virginia American Water and Eastman Chemical Company on October 9, 2015. Copenhaver found that “the singular factual ...
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5 years after BP spill, little has changed to protect Gulf of Mexico
Another oil rig caught fire in the Gulf of Mexico early this month. Orange flames shot high into the night sky; the local news reported that multiple workers were missing; and residents of the beleaguered Gulf Coast waited for the other shoe to drop. ...
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Oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the capping of the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon well
The authors give many thanks to Stag Liuzza and Krupnick, Campbell, Malone, Buser, Slama, Hancock, Liberman and Mckee, Attorneys-at-Law and MaryLee Orr, Louisiana Environmental Action Network (Baton Rouge, LA) and Marco Kaltofen, of Boston Chemical Data Corp. (Natick, MA, USA), for the assistance in ...
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Fifth Circuit Civil News; Coleman v. OFS, Inc.
In a victory for Stag Liuzza clients, the Supreme Court of Louisiana recently advised the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Louisiana law. Defendants had argued that La.Civ.Code. art. 2315.1 is preemptive. If true, this would mean the one-year limitations period for bringing suit on behalf of ...
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BP’s Politico puff piece wasn’t just shady journalism ethics, it was mostly a lie
BP, with a huge assist from the popular Beltway-insider website Politico, stirred up the muddy waters of the Deepwater Horizon spill aftermath this week when it published a corporate-love-letter-disguised-as-news entitled, “No, BP Didn’t Ruin the Gulf.” ...
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