Toxics Law Reporter Index-Summary

ZINC

– CWA, effluent discharge, Red Dog Mine, Alaska, Teck Alaska to pay civil penalties, 1110
– Dental cream causing copper deficiency and neurological injuries, MDL panel consolidates suits, 725
– Mining contaminant release, ASARCO $1.1B settlement approved (Bankr. S.D. Texas), 731
– Smelter waste contamination

– – Ill. superfund law bars village penalty ordinance suit (C.D. Ill.), 794
– – State-led cleanup no bar to challenge, suit remanded under CAFA (W.D. Okla.), 585; remand proper (10th Cir.), 1060

– Superfund

– – Palmerton Zinc Pile, Pa. site, responsible parties to pay $12M and give land to state (M.D. Pa.), 941
– – Refinery slag, disturbing contaminants during site investigation not disposal (D.N.J.), 792
– – Tar Creek buyout, residents sue re undervaluation (Okla. Dist. Ct.), 487

– Zicam Nasal Gel and anosmia, user who lost sense of smell files claims against Matrixx (E.D. Tex.), 92

ZYPREXA

– Diabetes and weight gain, plaintiff causation expert excluded (E.D.N.Y.), 628; manufacturer wins summary judgment re failure to warn, 699; three cases dismissed as time-barred and lacking causation, 788
– Suicide, summary judgment proper in failure-to-warn case (5th Cir.), 473