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Plaintiffs Cannot Defeat Federal Removal Jurisdiction by Artful Pleading

The allegations of a plaintiff’s complaint do not control when evaluating removal under the federal officer removal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1442(a)(1), and instead the court must credit the defendant’s theory of the case when...more

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Alleging Non-AFFF Claims in a Separate Action May Not Keep Those Claims in State Court

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State government plaintiffs in cases against PFAS manufacturers have adopted the strategy of filing parallel complaints in state court – one for recovery for contamination caused by PFAS in AFFF and a second for potentially...more

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The Water’s Fine? Navigating Water Contamination Litigation

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Perhaps one of the most quintessential concerns for corporate defendants in the last decade is that of nuclear verdicts. In just a decade, from 2013 to 2022, there were 115 verdicts of $100 million or more. The Institute for...more

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