H&N Environmental Class Action heard by Louisiana Court of Appeal for the 4th Circuit
On February 2, 2012, the Louisiana 4th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments regarding the Class Action Trial Victory obtained by Harrell & Nowak. Last year, H&N took the defendants to trial seeking the Court to find that several corporate and insurance defendants were liable to persons who lived and worked within 1-mile of the Air Liquide Facility during the reclamation and closure projects where hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of dangerous carbide lime was allowed to dry and and be dispersed into the adjacent neighborhood. The Trial Court ruled in favor of the class and found both the Air Liquide defendants and Global Lime defendants liable. Each of the four class representatives were awarded money damages.
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