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Arkansas Federal Court Denies Class Certification in Property Damage Suit
2015-02-12 21:25:04| Appliances - Topix.net
Exemplifying the reluctance of many courts to allow toxic tort cases to proceed as class actions, a federal judge in Arkansas denied certification of a putative class of neighboring landowners who claimed the Defendant's failure to adequately remediate contamination damaged their property values. See Whirlpool Corporation discovered the presence of elevated concentrations of triochloroethylene in the soil and groundwater of its Fort Smith, Arkansas manufacturing plants in the 1980s, and subsequently agreed to investigate and remediate impacted groundwater at the northern portion of its facility.
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SunZia Receives Key Federal Permit To Build Transmission Project
2015-02-12 17:52:00| Transmission & Distribution World
The SunZia Southwest Transmission Project received a Record of Decision (ROD) from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for its proposed transmission project covering 515 mi between New Mexico and Arizona. read more
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Auto dealer Boyd agrees to federal disability discrimination suit settlement
2015-02-12 09:33:51| Auto Dealers - Topix.net
A Lubbock auto dealer agreed Wednesday to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of a former manager who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Benny Boyd Chevrolet-Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep, which is no longer in business, will pay $250,000 in damages and back pay to Randall Hurst, a former manager at the dealership, according to a consent decree signed by U.S. District Judge Sam Cummings.
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Federal Circuit Chips Away At Patentable Subject Matter
2015-02-12 02:49:55| Biotech - Topix.net
The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has applied the Supreme Court's test for unpatentable abstract ideas to patents covering methods to determine a person's likelihood of getting certain types of cancer. In University of Utah Research Foundation v.
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Federal government won't investigate Green Mountain Power
2015-02-10 06:28:58| Energy - Topix.net
MONTPELIER >> The Federal Trade Commission won't open a formal investigation into Green Mountain Power's marketing of renewable energy, but is cautioning Vermont's largest power company to be clear in its communications with the public. The Environmental and Natural Resources Law Clinic at Vermont Law School had complained to the federal agency in September that GMP was making claims in Vermont about power coming from renewable sources, when credits for reducing carbon pollution are being sold out-of-state.
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