Legal Opinion
Osarczuk v. Associated Universities, Inc.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 8, 2011PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*854The defendant, Associated Universities, Incorporated, operated the Brookhaven National Laboratory (hereinafter BNL) for 50 years, from 1947 until 1998. The instant action was commenced in 1996, inter alia, to recover damages for injury to property allegedly resulting from BNL’s emission, over several decades, of numerous nuclear and nonnuclear hazardous and toxic substances into the air, soil, and groundwater, from various sources and in various ways.
The plaintiffs moved to certify a class of all persons who lived, owned property, or worked within a 10-mile radius of BNL. The defendant…
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