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High Court Rejects Class Action Suits For Environmental Damages
The Supreme Court ruled a Vermont environmental damage suit could not proceed as a class action under federal standards, limiting plaintiffs to individual actions unless each met the $10,000 threshold. Justice White authored the majority opinion joined by Burger Stewart Blackmun Powell and Rehnquist, with the decision prompting further appeals on site-specific lakefront claims.
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High Court
Washington
Supreme Court
Vermont
Texas
John Dwe
Orwell
Shoreham
Dy. Dowdy
Bridgeport
National Paper Co
Lake Champlain
U.S. Circuit Court
Marieral Court
New York
Juan Keith
Valerie Zahn
Mont
Charles
Marion Leazer
Circuit Court
Byron R. White
Warren B. Burger
Potter Stewart
Harry A. Blackmun
Lewis F. Powell Jr
William H. Rehnquist