Water Contamination Defendants Back Recommendation That Parties Should be Awarded Summary Judgment

WILMINGTON, Del. –– Defendants in a water contamination lawsuit have backed a report and recommendation in which a magistrate judge opined that the parties should be awarded summary judgment, saying the judge “correctly found that, despite substantial, unrestricted discovery on product identification, plaintiffs have no evidence that [the defendants] sold any PFAS-containing products” at the site in question.

In a response filed Feb. 14 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, the defendants maintained that discovery responses confirm there “were no relevant sales of PFAS-containing products….”

In a Jan. 29 report and recommendation, U.S. Magistrate Judge Sherry …