MO Lawyers Blog

Cameron cancer suits head to federal court 

A series of lawsuits over a dozens of brain tumors in northern Missouri may be moving to federal court. Lawyers for the multiple defendants in the lawsuit have asked to move the lawsuits, originally filed in Clinton and DeKalb counties, to the U.S. District Court in Kansas City. Davis, Bethune & Jones filed lawsuits in August 2008 [...]

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Study finds low carcinogen levels in northwest Missouri 

Federal and state investigators say an initial investigation does “not appear to indicate any health risks” from soil samples that are the basis for several lawsuits in northwest Missouri. In a news release today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 7 office said it found only low levels of the carcinogen hexavalent chromium in soil samples [...]

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