MARTIN v. BEHR DAYTON THERMAL PRODUCTS LLC

No. 17-3663.

896 F.3d 405 (2018)

Terry MARTIN; Linda Russel, aka Linda Russell; Nancy Smith; Deborah Needham, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BEHR DAYTON THERMAL PRODUCTS LLC; Behr America, Inc.; Chrysler Motors LLC, nka Old Carco LLC; Aramark Uniform & Career Apparel Inc., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: July 16, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Edward A. Cohen , THOMPSON COBURN, LLP, St. Louis, Missouri, for Appellants. Ned Miltenberg , NATIONAL LEGAL SCHOLARS LAW FIRM, P.C., Bethesda, Maryland, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Edward A. Cohen , THOMPSON COBURN, LLP, St. Louis, Missouri, Patrick Morales-Doyle , THOMPSON COBURN LLP, Chicago, Illinois, Nicholas B. Gorga , Khalilah V. Spencer , HONIGMAN MILLER SCHWARTZ AND COHN LLP, Detroit, Michigan, Michael D. Lichtenstein , Nikki Adame Winningham , LOWENSTEIN SANDLER LLP, Roseland, New Jersey, for Appellants. Ned Miltenberg , NATIONAL LEGAL SCHOLARS LAW FIRM, P.C., Bethesda, Maryland, Patrick A. Thronson , JANET, JENNER & SUGGS, LLC, Baltimore, Maryland, Douglas D. Brannon , BRANNON & ASSOCIATES, Dayton, Ohio, for Appellees.

Before: GILMAN, ROGERS, and STRANCH, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

This toxic tort class action case arises from Defendants' alleged contamination of the groundwater in the McCook Field neighborhood of Dayton, Ohio. Plaintiffs own properties in McCook Field, which is a low-income area surrounding a Superfund site. They allege that Defendants released volatile organic...

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