Weitz & Luxenberg attorneys reached another environmental lawsuit success with the announcement of a $23.5 million proposed settlement with Taconic Plastics Limited. The settlement is for the residents of Petersburgh, New York, for exposure to PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) water contamination. It follows shortly after the settlement for Hoosick Falls, N.Y. residents less than 3 months…

A global settlement of up to $1.8 billion was reached in the Aliso Canyon Well Blowout lawsuit. The settlement was achieved after nearly six years of intense litigation led by a coordinated team of plaintiffs’ attorneys, including Robin Greenwald and Devin Bolton of Weitz & Luxenberg P.C.; Brian J. Panish and Jesse Creed of Panish…

Since its opening in 2017, Weitz & Luxenberg’s Detroit, Michigan, office has positioned itself at the center of multiple class action, antitrust, environmental, and consumer protection litigation efforts. Headed by Michigan native and former Michigan Assistant Attorney General Paul Novak, our Detroit team is pursuing justice on many fronts. Operating from this region of the…

Weitz & Luxenberg, in partnership with Super Law Group and Gray Plant Mooty, recently filed lawsuits on behalf of the Minnesota cities of Bloomington, Burnsville, Eden Prairie, Golden Valley, Maple Grove, Minnetonka and White Bear Lake against seven refiners of coal tar for allegedly contaminating numerous stormwater ponds with chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)….

Weitz & Luxenberg has filed a class action lawsuit in Payne County, Oklahoma over earthquakes caused by the injection of fracking wastewater deep underground. The lawsuit comes one month after a powerful 5.0-magnitude earthquake shook the town of Cushing, causing extensive damage in the area. “Not only did last month’s earthquake in Cushing damage historic…

A federal judge selected Weitz & Luxenberg P.C., and Faraci Lange, LLP to serve as co-lead interim class counsel and to manage the Hoosick Falls, New York, class action lawsuit against Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp. and Honeywell International, Inc. The Court also appointed experienced Albany attorney John Powers of Powers & Santola LLP as interim…

In the 1970s and 1980s a construction worker helped install underground water and sewer lines in California. This was his regular job, the way he made a living and fed his family. The lines included pipes manufactured with asbestos. Using asbestos meant the pipes would be easier to make and cheaper to produce (increasing profit…

On March 4, 2010, Weitz & Luxenberg P.C. began filing complaints against E.I. DuPont and Royle Systems Group, on behalf of over 350 residents of Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. This legal action is prompted by the defendants’ decision to allow a plume of hazardous chemicals emanating from DuPont’s Pompton Lakes Works explosives factory and from…

Our environmental attorneys would like to inform residents of Pompton Lakes, New Jersey of a new public health study concerning their community. The study found that residents of one area of Pompton Lakes have more than three times the rate of kidney cancer in women and more than 2.5 times the rate of non-Hodgkins lymphoma…

UPDATE: W&L attorneys, along with our legal partners, settled the case through mediation for $28 million. Weitz & Luxenberg P.C., together with Nashville, TN counsel May and Ryan, PLC have filed an environmental lawsuit against the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on behalf of 109 citizens in Roane County and surrounding areas. This legal action is…