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CURRENT LAWSUITS

A class action complaint in the District Court for the Southern District of New York against the United States Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA"), Christine Todd Whitman, former administrator of EPA, Marianne L. Horinko, former assistant administrator and then administrator of EPA, and Michael Leavitt, administrator of EPA since November 2003 was filed on behalf of residents, students, and office workers in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn who have been exposed to hazardous substances in the interior of their residences, schools, and work places as a result of the collapse of the World Trade Centers on September 11, 2001.

On February 3, 2006, Judge Deborah A. Batts, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruled that a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of residents, workers and office workers in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn can proceed with respect to the Plaintiffs' allegations that Christine Todd Whitman, former head of the E.P.A., violated the proposed class’ Fifth Amendment Constitutional right to be free from bodily harm when she made materially misleading statements regarding the safety of the air quality in Lower Manhattan  after September 11, 2001. Judge Batts, while dismissing the Plaintiffs mandamus and CERCLA claims against the E.P.A., rejected the E.P.A.’s arguments in allowing the Plaintiffs' Administrative Procedure Act claims to go forward based on the E.P.A.’s misleading statements about air quality and its failure to adhere to applicable standards with respect to the clean up of Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn after the collapse of the World Trade Center.

    See the Press Release, February 2, 2006 >>>

See the decision, February 2, 2006 >>>

See the Complaint, filed on March 10, 2004 >>>

 

See the case Summary of the lawsuit against EPA: >>>

The firms suing are:

 

Shandell, Blitz, Blitz & Bookson, LLP., 150 Broadway, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10038-4498

Telephone: 212 - 513-1300  

 

Joel R. Kupferman of the New York Environmental Law & Justice Project, 351 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY 10013-3902

Telephone: 212 - 334-5551

Berger & Montague, P.C., 1622 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Telephone: 1-800-424-6690

Facsimile: 215-875-4604

For more information about the firm or any of its cases, please email Berger & Montague at info@bm.net.

 

For such discussion as has occurred in public, please see the March 2004 compilation of news reports, and the statements by Congressman Nadler, and by 9/11 Environmental Action.

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In another law suit, Ground Zero workers sue the federal government for misleading public statements about the air quality, see the Nov. 24th, 2004 New York Daily News article.  The firm suing is Weitz and Luxemburg.

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In a lawsuit is being filed against owners, managers, controllers and leasers of the World Trade Center complex, the complaints against property owners and others on behalf of over 800 plaintiffs is the first major class lawsuit on behalf of cleanup workers at Ground Zero of the World Trade Center. Thousands more are expected to join the lawsuit with over one billion dollars being sought for victim medical testing. See the January 27, 2005 press release.  One of the firms suing is Napoli Bern LLP.

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