A federal judge in Missouri says the defendants in a massive lawsuit involving lead pollution in Peru owe $430,000 for failing to turn over documents in the long-running case.
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Read More »The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is accusing Doe Run Resources Corp. of violating the state’s clean water law after one of its pipelines broke in 2014 and allegedly contaminated two rural Missouri waterways. The Missouri attorney general’s office filed ...
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Two thirds of the damages in one of the largest jury verdicts in Missouri history will have to be retried following an appellate court ruling on Tuesday. (Updated)
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The Dec. 31 closing of the smelter on the west bank of the Mississippi River, south of St. Louis, marks the end of an era in a region that has supplied most of the nation’s lead since the 1700s.
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Two days after lawmakers overrode Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of a law to protect The Doe Run Co. from large punitive damage awards, the company settled three lawsuits alleging injuries from lead pollution.
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Lawmakers rose up to protect Doe Run Resources from large punitive damage awards.
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Read More »Gov. Jay Nixon said the bill would result in a special law in violation of the state constitution.
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The decision lets stand a $55M class action settlement in a case alleging Doe Run’s lead smelter in Herculaneum caused property damage to area homes.
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Read More »Two courts this week gave bad news to defense lawyers fighting the Doe Run lead smelter case, setting the case up for further appeals.
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Read More »A group of London insurers must pay Doe Run Resources $5 million for the cost of cleaning up lead contamination around six old lead milling sites in St. Francois County, plus a 10 percent statutory penalty for their refusal to pay and $3.6 million in attorney fees.
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Read More »Lawyers in the Doe Run lead smelter case were back in court twice this week. On Tuesday, they tried to persuade St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Dennis Schaumann to rule their own way on the defendants’ post-trial motions.
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