Legal Opinion
Jodelle Kirk v. Schaeffler Group USA
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 5, 2018No. 16-3417PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
From 1973 to 1982, FAG Bearings Corporation released thousands of gallons of trichloroethylene (TCE), a volatile organic compound now classified as a hazardous substance, at its manufacturing facility in Joplin, Missouri. In 1991, the Missouri Department of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) detected TCE contamination in residential wells in the Villages of Silver Creek and Saginaw, communities south of the FAG Bearings plant. Subsequent litigation established that FAG Bearings was solely responsible for the TCE contamination in Silver Creek and Saginaw.…
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