Legal Opinion
Reader v. Magma-Superior Copper Company
Arizona Supreme Court
Decided March 15, 1972No. 10414-PRPublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STRUCKMEYER, Justice.
This case is before us on a petition for review of an order of the Court of Appeals dismissing the appeal of Mark Reader and other appellants, plaintiffs in the Superior Court. The dismissal is ordered vacated and the cause transferred to this Court for final disposition.
Appellants brought this lawsuit as a class action under Rule 23, Rules of Civil Procedure, 16 A.R.S., against six asserted owners or operators of copper smelters in Arizona. The class is described as the entire population of Maricopa County, numbering some 700,000 people who are forced to breathe and…
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