Tuscumbia City School System v. Pharmacia Corp.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

LYNWOOD SMITH, District Judge.

The plaintiff in this action is the public school system of the City of Tuscumbia, Alabama. It commenced this diversity jurisdiction case as a putative class action against defendant, Pharmacia Corporation, alleging one count of negligence and one count of wantonness or recklessness in the design, manufacture, and marketing of electric ballasts for fluorescent light fixtures containing “the now-banned toxic chemicals known as Polychlorinated Biphenyls (‘PCBs’),” and with knowledge that: PCBs were toxic; that failing ballasts release…