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· 11/3/1980

Chicco v. Jones

Citations

  • 449 U.S. 959
  • 101 S. Ct. 371
  • 66 L. Ed. 2d 226
  • 49 U.S.L.W. 3333
  • 1980 U.S. LEXIS 3810

How courts have described this case

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  • court denies certification of class exposed to PCBs due to predominance of individual causation issues
  • mass tort claim for toxic city water with individualized amounts of exposure to toxin and pre-existing conditions, and thus, causation questions, not one where “one set of operative facts establishes liability.”

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