Pruitt v. Allied Chemical Corp.
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
85 F.R.D. 100 (1980)
- Written by Mary Phelan D'Isa, JD
Facts
Plaintiffs sought class-action certification for a single class of plaintiffs in a mass-tort action against Allied Chemical Corp., (Allied) (defendant) for its alleged Kepone-chemical pollution of Virginia and Maryland waterways. Allied initially contested the single-class certification because it alleged that no single cause of action could be asserted by the class as a whole or by any easily defined subgroup. Allied further alleged that single-class certification should be denied because of the differing defenses of the individual plaintiffs, the necessity for individual damage determinations for the different plaintiffs, and the choice-of-law issues that would arise in claims from Virginia and Maryland plaintiffs.
Rule of Law
Issue
Holding and Reasoning (Merhige, J.)
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