4th Circuit Stays PFAS Contamination Appeal While it Considers Petition for Rehearing

BALTIMORE –– The 4th Circuit has stayed a jurisdictional dispute in two PFAS water contamination lawsuits in light of rehearing requests by the plaintiff states, which said the appellate court’s decision “significantly broadens the scope of federal officer jurisdiction.”

In a March 24 filing, the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals temporarily stayed the mandate it issued earlier this month since the filing of a “timely petition for rehearing stays the mandate until the court has ruled on the petition.”

The petition for rehearing en banc was filed on March 21. In it, the States of Maryland and South Carolina …