Legal Opinion
Karl Ebert v. General Mills, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 20, 2016No. 15-1735PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
General Mills, Inc., challenges the district court’s grant of class certification in this environmental-contamination lawsuit. 1 Plaintiffs, all owners of residential properties in a particular neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota, sued General Mills, alleging General Mills caused the chemical substance trichloroethylene (TCE) to be released onto the ground and into the environment at a former General Mills facility, located within the same neighborhood. The plaintiffs claim that as a result of this contamination, TCE vapors migrated into the surrounding residential…
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