Parties Reach $151M Settlement In West Virginia Drinking Water Contamination Case
In a huge victory for the people of Charleston, West Virginia, defendants responsible for toxic tap water caused by a chemical spill settled all claims against them for $151 million on the day before trial. Stag Liuzza represented a class of more than 224,000 individuals, 7,300 businesses and governmental bodies damaged by the 2014 spill, which […]
Judge refuses to remove defendants from landfill case
Stag Liuzza, LLC is representing the Estill County Fiscal Court in a lawsuit against Cory Hoskins, BES services, Advanced TENORM services and Advanced Disposal for disposing of radioactive waste in the Blue Ridge Landfill, breaching the terms of their contract. An individual and two of his companies will remain defendants in a civil action filed […]
Judge denies request to dismiss lawsuit against Estill County landfill
Stag Liuzza, LLC is representing the Estill County Fiscal Court in a lawsuit against Cory Hoskins, BES services, Advanced TENORM services and Advanced Disposal for disposing of radioactive waste in the Blue Ridge Landfill, breaching the terms of their contract. A judge has denied a request to throw out a lawsuit involving the disposal of […]
Oil in the Gulf of Mexico after the capping of the BP/Deepwater Horizon Mississippi Canyon well
The authors give many thanks to Stag Liuzza and Krupnick, Campbell, Malone, Buser, Slama, Hancock, Liberman and Mckee, Attorneys-at-Law and MaryLee Orr, Louisiana Environmental Action Network (Baton Rouge, LA) and Marco Kaltofen, of Boston Chemical Data Corp. (Natick, MA, USA), for the assistance in collecting the pre-capping samples used in this analysis. This study received […]
The State of the Gulf’s Beaches: BP Oil Spill Weekly Pollution Summary
Tar balls and dolphins with missing teeth — the never-ending legacy of BP’s crime.
ExxonMobil is scrutinized in Baton Rouge after past leaks
Stag Liuzza LLC in New Orleans, filed a class action suit last month on behalf of ten African American, Standard Heights residents and seven minor children, sickened by the June 14, 2012 leak. Early that morning, a bleeder plug, which slowly drains off gas and liquids at the complex’s Aromatics Production Unit, leaked benzene and […]
Baton Rouge’s Corroded, Overpolluting Neighbor: Exxon Mobil
NPR coverage Exxon’s major June 2012 benzene spill.
High-powered law firm hired to fight concrete-crushing work
John Fontenot, spokesman for Stag Liuzza, said the problems come not only from the noise and vibrations, but especially from the dust that creates what is known as “silica” particles that float through the air. “This kind of operation creates a lot of dust and what is known as particulate. There are federal standards for […]
Specialist : Stigma on seafood lingers
William Sawyer, a toxicologist working for New Orleans law firm Stag Liuzza, LLC., last year called FDA safety tests “little more than a farce.” He said the FDA should use more comprehensive methods to tests for the compounds.
Oil Spill Attorney Mike Stag On Louisiana For BP Lawsuit
Mike Stag of Stag Liuzza, LLC of New Orleans, Louisiana explains the advantages of hearing the lawsuits against BP in Louisiana. This is the best venue for federal judges to hear the case, if so assigned by the MDL, or United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Mr. Stag describes the difficulty in fishermen getting […]