Lawsuits

The residents of Hunts Point in South Bronx have filed lawsuit against the city for smells from a waste treatment plant which has plagued their community.

The community had previously filed complaints and held protests about the sickening smell from local waste treatment plants.

The noxious smells come from the waste water treatment plant in Hunts Point and New York Organic Fertilizer Company. The fertilizer company converts the sewage and human waste into fertilizer pellets.

The local activist organization Mothers on the Move have filed a nuisance lawsuit against the fertilizer company and the city.

The Natural Resource Defense council has taken on the [...]

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The family of the woman who died on the Brooklyn hospital while waiting to be seen in the hospital’s psychiatric ward last month and was caught on surveillance tape, have planned to sue the facility.

Esmin Green’s daughter and sister will ask for $25 million as damages caused by the Kings County Hospital. Also a criminal charge is made by their lawyer.

Surveillance video showed the 49-year-old women shaking on the floor while workers walked pass by.

Trecia Harrison the Green’s Daughter wants that the persons responsible should be behind bars, and also pay for it [...]

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The federal judge on Monday rejected a request by relatives of 9/11 victims to sift through tons of debris from the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island. They wanted to search for the human remains of their loved ones who perished in 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said that he would deny the request, praising the city for undertaking the “herculean job of repairing the gaping hole in our society,” and saying that nothing — not even the upheaval of 1.8 million tons of landfill debris — would ever return the dead [...]

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A former Army scientist will receive $5.8 million in order to settle his lawsuit against the Justice Department.

Steven Hatfill claimed that the Justice Department has violated his privacy rights by speaking with reporters about the case.

The Justice Department will pay $2.825 million up front along with a $3 million annuity which will pay him $150,000 each year for 20 years.

Hatfill contracted infectious disease while working in laboratory from 1997 to 1999. Five people were killed and 17 sickened by anthrax on 2001, when anthrax was mailed to lawmakers on Capitol Hill and members of the news media in New York [...]

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