Adams v. Atlantic Richfield Company

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA HAMMOND DIVISION DESHEENA ADAMS, et al., ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) Cause No. 2:18-CV-375-PPS-JPK ) ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY, ) et al., ) ) Defendants. ) OPINION AND ORDER This is an old case that was reassigned to me late last year. [DE 195.] It is one of a series of related toxic tort lawsuits brought in this district by various groups of East Chicago residents.1 With one exception (the Alvarez case), all of these matters have yet to proceed past the pleading stage. The plaintiffs in this case are 54 former residents of the West…