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District Court Upholds Public Water Supplier’s Tort Claims & Finds Expert Testimony Admissible in Groundwater Contamination Litigation
August 12, 2025
Reilly Wright, Esq.
MGKF Litigation Blog
On July 9th, 2025, the Eastern District of New York ruled on a series of motions in Suffolk County Water Authority v. Dow Chemical Company, a case brought by the Suffolk County Water Authority (“Suffolk”) against chemical manufacturers for the alleged contamination of Suffolk’s groundwater supply with 1,4-dioxane (“dioxane”), a chemical classified by the EPA as a “probable human carcinogen.” Judge Gershon issued an opinion allowing most of the plaintiff’s common law tort claims to proceed to trial while clarifying the standard for expert admissibility under recently amended Federal Rule of Evidence 702.
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