Theresa Mejdrech v. Met-Coil Systems Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that case law on “the appropriateness of class action treatment in pollution cases” is divided and collecting cases
• affirming class certification when plaintiffs alleged that a storage tank on the defendant’s property contaminated soil and groundwater beneath their homes
• certifying class to determine liability in case alleging that defendant leaked chemicals into plaintiffs’ soil and groundwater
• certifying a class for issues of causation but requiring individual hearings for other issues such as damages, which were not certified
• affirming certification because “[t]he questions whether Met-Coil leaked TCE in violation of law and whether the TCE reached the soil and groundwater beneath the homes of the class members are common to all the class members”
• affirming certification because “[t]he questions whether Met-Coil leaked TCE in violation of law and whether the TCE reached the soil and groundwater beneath the homes of the class members are common to all the class members”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).