Some Erie County lawmakers want to rollback county executive pandemic powers
While the county executive continues to wield more powers in a state of emergency with the ongoing pandemic, some county lawmakers say it s time to curb those powers Author: Ron Plants Updated: 7:05 PM EDT March 16, 2021
BUFFALO, N.Y. While Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz continues to wield more powers in a state of emergency with the ongoing pandemic, some county lawmakers say it s time to curb those powers.
Just as in Albany a couple of weeks ago with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the minority caucus of three Republicans and one Conservative Party member want to strip executive order abilities from the Erie County executive because they feel the COVID numbers are going down and the legislature must reclaim its power of checks and balances. But it won t be easy.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) – The judge overseeing a proposed massive class action that could affect almost every person in America won’t let one company appeal his ruling that kept the case going against it.
Judge Edmund Sargus on Feb. 17 denied the petition for permission to appeal filed by Japanese company Daikin Industries, which is one of many businesses facing litigation over chemicals known as PFAS that are in the bloodstreams of nearly every American.
Researchers say data regarding the health effects of PFAS is still lacking, but the class action by Kevin Hardwick pursues claims on behalf of everyone with a measure of PFAS in their bloodstream.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - DuPont has agreed to split an expected $4 billion litigation bill over the environmentally pervasive chemical PFAS with Chemours and Corteva, former business units that DuPont spun out in 2015 and 2019.
Under the terms of the binding memorandum of understanding announced Jan. 22, DuPont and Corteva, its former agriculture unit, will cover half of PFAS expenses for the next 20 years. The agreement settles a Delaware lawsuit Chemours filed in 2019 to claw back a $3.2 billion dividend it paid to its former parent DuPont so it could cover legal costs related to the so-called “forever chemical.” Chemours was forced into arbitration after a Delaware judge dismissed the lawsuit in a decision upheld by the Delaware Supreme Court.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) – In the case of
Every American vs. 11 companies, defendants are hoping to stop class action lawyers from establishing “the most ambitious class imaginable.”
DuPont, 3M and others filed their opposition to class certification in an Ohio lawsuit that seeks to create a medical monitoring program and a scientific research project to study the effects of PFAS – a group of chemicals in the bloodstreams of virtually all Americans.
The exact health effects of PFAS aren’t known but are debated, nonetheless, in places as high as Congress.
Kevin Hardwick’s lawsuit doesn’t allege he has been made sick by PFAS but that the companies should still have to pay to track his – and everyone’s – health.