Watson v. Malcom

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• finding typicality for claims of class representatives who sought medical monitoring for early cancer detection due to exposure to radioactive materials
• certifying class defined as persons within six miles of boundaries of plant that released hazardous materials
• commenting that defendants’ arguments that “neither lifetime nor annual doses of radiation to class members, attributable to the Portsmouth plant are significant enough to cause either a reasonable risk of health effects or any loss of property value,” are merit issues
• certifying claims remediation claims — medical monitoring, plant cleanup and nuisance abatement — under Rule 23(b)(1)(A)
• certifying class alleging claims for, inter alia, negligence, private nuisance, and willful and wanton misconduct under Ohio law
• finding an expert's diffusion model sufficient to support a \reasonable relationship\ between the evidence of record and the six-mile radius class definition

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