Legal Opinion
Sterling v. Velsicol Chemical Corp.
District Court, W.D. Tennessee
Decided August 1, 1986No. 78-1100PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING JUDGMENT TO PLAINTIFFS
HORTON, District Judge.
This class action lawsuit was originally filed by plaintiffs against Velsicol Chemical Corporation in the Circuit Court of Hardeman County, Tennessee, on December 4, 1978.
Plaintiffs are a class of persons who owned property or lived within a three mile radius of the northern most boundary line of a 242 acre chemical waste burial site in Hardeman County, Tennessee, owned and operated by Velsicol from late 1964 until it was closed as hazardous in 1973 by order of the State of Tennessee. Plaintiffs in this class action seek…
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