Legal Opinion
In Re World Trade Center Disaster Site Litigation
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 17, 2006No. 21 MC 100(AKH), 03 Civ. 00007 et al. (AKH)PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION DENYING AND GRANTING MOTIONS FOR JUDGMENT ON THE PLEADINGS AND FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
HELLERSTEIN, District Judge.
It took ten months to remove the debris that resulted when the terrorists crashed their hijacked airplanes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Thousands of workers converged on the site, toiling day and night, seven days a week until they completed their jobs. They risked their lives from shifting debris, fires, smoke, and acrid and polluted air to complete their work in record time, in an extraordinary effort to close the gaping hole caused…
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