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“A federal judge this week said that a group of Maryland residents could proceed with a class action lawsuit against Perdue Farms that alleges the company’s soybean plant improperly discharged harmful chemicals that contaminated their well water, but dismissed claims seeking to link the contamination to residents’ existing medical ailments.
The environmental contamination is a matter ‘of some urgency,’ US District Judge Stephanie Gallagher wrote in her opinion, filed Aug. 12 in the US District Court for the District of Maryland. Gallagher denied Perdue’s request to delay the case pending an investigation by state regulators.
‘Without specifying the health conditions they previously had or presently suffer from, they have neither provided Perdue adequate notice of their claims nor set forth facts plausibly establishing causation,’ wrote Judge Gallagher in the opinion.” …