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Illinois AG ordered to provide documents from several state agencies in Monsanto litigation
Raoul can't shield information from agencies whose data he used to build water pollution lawsuit, federal judge says -
Judge: IL A/G's pollution suit v. Monsanto belongs in federal, not state court; Company worked under prior U.S. govt direction
The lawsuit, which was originally filed in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago, centers on alleged contamination that occurred in St. Clair County, near St. Louis. The federal judge rejected efforts by the Attorney General to get the case sent back to Cook County court -
Jury says Sterigenics not liable for woman's cancer, in second trial over Willowbrook EtO emissions
The verdict comes two months after a different jury ordered Sterigenics to pay $363 million to a different woman, also over claims Sterigenics' emissions allegedly caused her cancer. Sterigenics still faces hundreds of other similar lawsuits. -
Ameren can't quickly pull plug on lawsuit over truck driver's injuries from low hanging power lines
Appeals panel said Ameren can't defeat the lawsuit by simply claiming the low hanging power lines amounted to an open and obvious danger, that a reasonable person should have seen and avoided -
Sterigenics: Personal injury lawsuits should be doomed by EPA, other government regulation of EtO emissions
Sterigenics has asked a Cook County judge to dismiss a host of personal injury lawsuits against it, asserting the law does not allow it to be sued for its emissions of ethylene oxide, because the emissions were regulated by the government