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Public nuisance case against former lead pigment, paint manufacturers set for...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — Ten California cities and counties are asking a state court to declare that all lead paint on privately-owned residential buildings within their jurisdictions...
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Ruling for plaintiffs in Calif. lead paint case could hurt state’s real...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — California’s real estate market could take a hit if a state court rules in favor of the plaintiffs in a public nuisance case against former lead pigment and paint...
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Plaintiffs’ expert in Calif. lead paint trial never investigated lead...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — The expert health witness in a $1 billion public lawsuit against former manufacturers of lead-based paint and pigments never investigated lead exposure specific to...
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Plaintiffs’ expert in lead paint trial says studies not California-specific
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — The expert health witness in a $1 billion public nuisance lawsuit against former manufacturers of lead-based paint and pigments never investigated lead exposure...
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Calif. lead paint judge urges sides to settle this week
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — The judge presiding over an estimated $1 billion lawsuit against the manufacturers of lead paints and pigments urged both parties to “settle” during trial this week....
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Both sides in Calif. trial use same lead paint expert
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — Both sides in the trial against former lead pigment and paint manufacturers used a California state scientist as an expert witness this week. Kleinberg Joseph...
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Plaintiffs’ expert in lead paint trial says industry took responsibility for...
Markowitz SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Manufacturers of lead based pigments and paints were aware of the dangers lead exposure posed nearly 100 years ago, but promoted them anyway, according to...
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Plaintiffs’ expert says lead paint abatement could cost $1.4 billion
Kleinberg SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Research director Dr. David Jacobs of the National Center for Healthy Housing and an authority in abatement procedures testified for plaintiffs Thursday...
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Plaintiffs wrap up in lead paint trial; defendants plan to move for summary...
Keinberg SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Health officials from Solano, Monterey and Alameda counties on Monday testified about the hazards lead paint poses in their jurisdictions and the need for...
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Attorney: Abatement would mean big bucks for plaintiffs’ lawyers
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — The fact that blood lead levels in California are at their lowest in decades hasn’t stopped a group of cities and counties, and their attorneys, from pursuing a...
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Paint manufacturers ask judge in Calif. lead paint trial to toss case
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — The defendants in an ongoing trial over lead paint — one-time paint and pigment manufacturers — have asked the California judge hearing the case to dismiss it. On...
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Calif. real estate board concerned about impact of lead paint case
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — A California real estate board says it is concerned about the impact of a lead paint case, currently on trial in Santa Clara County Superior Court, on the state’s...
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Lead paint plaintiffs respond to summary judgment motions
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Plaintiffs pursuing a lead paint public nuisance case against five paint manufacturers responded to two defendants’ motions for summary judgment by saying one of the...
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Defense presents first witness in Calif. lead paint trial
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — The defense in a lawsuit against one-time lead paint and pigment manufacturers presented its first witness Thursday. Washburn Stephen Washburn, principal scientist...
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Calif. judge denies Sherwin Williams motion in lead paint trial
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — A California judge denied paint maker Sherwin Williams’ motion for summary judgment at the opening of trial Monday in Santa Clara County Superior Court. Kleinberg...
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Doctor says lead paint knowledge has changed ‘radically’
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – Defense witness Dr. Peter English, testifying in the sixth week of a public nuisance trial under way in Santa Clara County Superior Court, said that knowledge of the...
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Lead paint defense witness attacks plaintiffs witness’ research
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — Defense witness Dr. David Garabrant on Tuesday continued to try to discredit research conducted by a key plaintiff witness in the lead paint public nuisance trial...
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White lead not from Sherwin Williams, historian testifies
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — Historian Dr. Colleen Dunlavy testified Wednesday in Santa Clara County Superior Court that if someone has white lead carbonate on their California painted wall it...
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Sides rest in Calif. lead paint trial
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg on Thursday praised lawyers prosecuting and defending a 13-year-old lead paint public nuisance case after...
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Lots of data to process for Calif. lead paint judge
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — A watershed decision expected before the end of the year may come down to how one individual processes volumes of complex analyses of complex data relating to the...
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Lead paint plaintiffs’ victory may bring unintended consequences
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — California and its residents will face unintended consequences if 10 cities and counties win their lawsuit over the presence of lead paint in older homes, says Tony...
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Former lead paint, pigment manufacturers say Calif. plaintiffs failed to...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — The defendants in a six-week trial over lead paint — one-time paint and pigment manufacturers — contend, in filings late Friday, that the plaintiffs have not proven...
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Plaintiffs in Calif. lead paint case say companies’ witnesses were ‘not...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — The plaintiffs in a six-week trial over lead paint — 10 cities and counties in California — argue that the one-time paint and pigment manufacturers they’re suing...
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Plaintiffs win in Calif. lead paint case could threaten business, hit...
Copland SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – From Timothy Hardy’s perspective, all companies should be worried if a California judge finds that old, lead-based paint in private homes constitutes a...
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Closing arguments in Calif. lead paint trial take place Monday
Kleinberg SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — In the high stakes lead paint public nuisance case culminating in Santa Clara County Superior Court, both sides will make closing arguments Monday before...
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Judge again asks sides to settle in Calif. lead paint case
SAN JOSE (Legal Newsline) – Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge James Kleinberg on Monday ended proceedings in a 13-year-old case against paint companies by admonishing both sides, again, to...
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In closing arguments, defendant companies say lead paint plaintiffs failed to...
UPDATED: SAN JOSE (Legal Newsline) – Attorneys for one-time lead paint and pigment manufacturers argued during closing arguments Monday that plaintiffs failed to prove their case brought on behalf of...
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Lead paint decision now in hands of judge
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — Whether childhood lead poisoning in 10 California cities and counties can be blamed on one-time lead paint and pigment manufacturers is a decision that rests solely...
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Lead paint lawyers’ potential payout comes with questions
Cotchett Copland SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — Consumer Attorneys of California President Brian Kabateck considers the lead-based paint case that recently concluded in Santa Clara County...
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DuPont agrees to settle with feds, W.Va. over alleged Clean Air Act violations
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (Legal Newsline) — This week, the federal Environmental Protection Agency announced that E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, otherwise known as DuPont, has agreed to settle alleged...
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Calif. judge says NL, ConAgra, Sherwin Williams must pay $1.1 billion in lead...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — A California judge on Monday ordered NL Industries, ConAgra and Sherwin Williams to pay $1.1 billion to replace or maintain lead paint in millions of homes....
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Update: NL, ConAgra, Sherwin-Williams to file objections to Calif. judge’s...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) — A spokeswoman for NL Industries, ConAgra Grocery Products and The Sherwin-Williams Company says the companies will file objections with the California judge who, on...
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Law school dean weighs in on Calif. lead paint ruling
BRISTOL, R.I. (Legal Newsline) — A law school dean and expert in class-action lawsuits and mass torts said Tuesday he wouldn’t be surprised if a $1.1 billion ruling against one-time paint and pigment...
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Calif. judge increases cost of lead paint abatement fund by $50 million
SAN JOSE, Calif. (Legal Newsline) – A California judge issued his final statement of decision against a group of former lead paint manufacturers Tuesday, raising the cost of a required abatement fund...
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Housing and real estate group says Calif. judge’s final decision in lead...
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) — A Los Angeles County-based housing and real estate group says last week’s decision against a group of former lead paint manufacturers, raising the cost of a required...
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More than 100 companies, business associations say they’re against possible...
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) — Last week, a group of more than 100 companies and business associations urged federal lawmakers to reject efforts to expand the Transitional Program for Covered Business...
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Delaware Supreme Court declines jurisdiction over Argentine nationals’...
Holland DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) – The Delaware Supreme Court has affirmed the dismissal of an Argentine national’s asbestos lawsuit against DuPont. The court released its decision Thursday in...
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