KIRK v. SCHAEFFLER GROUP USA, INC.

No. 16-3417.

887 F.3d 376 (2018)

Jodelle L. KIRK, Plaintiff-Appellee v. SCHAEFFLER GROUP USA, INC.; FAG Bearings, LLC, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: April 5, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellant was Richard Salgado , of Dallas, TX. The following attorney(s) appeared on the appellant brief; Adam Pierson , of Dallas, TX, Gregory Thomas Wolf , of Kansas City, MO, Wade P.K. Carr , of Kansas City, MO, and Gary M. Roberts , of Sacramento, CA.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellee was Kenneth Blair McClain , of Independence, MO. The following attorney(s) appeared on the appellee brief; Jonathan M. Soper , of Independence, MO.

Before LOKEN, ARNOLD, and SHEPHERD, Circuit Judges.


From 1973 to 1982, FAG Bearings Corporation released thousands of gallons of trichloroethylene (TCE), a volatile organic compound now classified as a hazardous substance, at its manufacturing facility in Joplin, Missouri. In 1991, the Missouri Department of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) detected TCE contamination...

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