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WV MetroNews – More Than 80,000 Claims Filed in Water Settlement for Freedom Spill

Claims filed in connection with the 2014 water crisis settlement will continue to come in over the next few days following last week’s deadline. Charleston attorney Anthony Majestro told MetroNews they received more than 80,000 claims for the $151 million settlement between West Virginia American Water Company and Eastman Chemical following the 2014 Freedom Industries …


Law Enforcement Attorneys Seek to Dismiss ‘Disturbing Schools’ Lawsuit

Lawyers representing Attorney General Alan Wilson and more than a dozen law enforcement officials across the state want a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of South Carolina’s disturbing schools statute, saying the plaintiffs lack legal standing to sue. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Charleston in August, received its first hearing with federal …


Settlement Reached in Lawsuit Related to Kanawha County Water Crisis

A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit related to the Kanawha Valley water crisis back in 2014. That’s when there was a chemical spill at Freedom Industries in Charleston that impacted drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people in nine counties. A class action lawsuit was filed against Eastman Chemical and West Virginia American Water after …


42,000 Officers Asked to Join Lawsuit After Police Group Drops Michael Slager From Legal Coverage

Police officers in South Carolina and eight other states could join a class-action lawsuit in hopes of getting back the money they spent to fend off allegations of misconduct. Slager hearing A hearing this week in the federal criminal case against Michael Slager has been rescheduled for Friday. Slager is charged with three federal counts in last year’s shooting death of Walter Scott that was …


West Virginia Chemical Spill Lawsuit Trial Moved to October

The trial for a class-action lawsuit over a West Virginia chemical spill that polluted 300,000 people’s drinking water has been rescheduled for October. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports (http://bit.ly/29sHmwz ) that U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver in Charleston announced …