An amended lawsuit has been filed against Union Pacific involving contamination of the Chicot Aquifer, where Lafayette area business owners and their attorney allege their properties are at risk.
The following cases categorized as "copyright" were on the docket in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on June 19. All case details are allegations only and should not be taken as fact:
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana reported the following activities in the suit brought by HEATHER FERDINAND against SPEARS CONSULTING GROUP, LLC on June 19.
LAKE CHARLES – An interstate rail carrier alleges a locomotive was damaged after it collided with a tractor-trailer that had stopped at a railroad crossing in Oakdale.
A wife and children are suing Union Pacific Railroad Company and Anthony Forest Products Company LLC, railroad crossing and mill owners, citing alleged insufficient measures were taken to prevent injuries and negligence.
A Ouachita Parish citizen is suing his employer, a major railroad company, alleging liability for damages in a recent workplace accident which the plaintiff claims was entirely avoidable.
NEW ORLEANS – A freight and cargo handler in the Port of New Orleans between approximately 1950 and the early 1960s has filed suit against numerous companies for their interactions with asbestos.
Oden A railroad worker claims he was exposed to hazardous chemicals for approximately 38 years in a suit filed against Union Pacific Railroad on May 6 in federal court in New Orleans.
Bourque Union Pacific Railroad is being sued by the captain of a vessel that capsized after the railroad prematurely closed a railroad bridge causing the vessel to collide into the bridge.
Waggaman property owners have filed a lawsuit against Union Pacific seeking repair to its storm water drainage facilities underneath the railroad's track.
