What began as an environmental tort case 13 years ago has grown into a nasty battle in which a law firm is accused of using a sham defendant to thwart federal jurisdiction. The suit, which has lost at every legal turn so far, accuses Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis of fraud in a 1994 wrongful death case that it brought against now-bankrupt Saltire Industrial Inc. The president of Saltire's parent company plans to seek en banc reconsideration of the 6th Circuit's recent dismissal of the fraud case.
July 10, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
What began as a testy environmental tort case 13 years ago has grown into a nasty battle in which a Nashville, Tenn., law firm is accused of using a sham defendant to thwart federal jurisdiction.
The suit, which has lost at every legal turn so far, accuses Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis of fraud in a 1994 wrongful death case that it brought against now-bankrupt Saltire Industrial Inc. Saltire was accused of poisoning well water by dumping toxic waste in a landfill.
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