{"id":2519,"date":"2018-10-04T19:51:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T23:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10028\/whitepapers\/national-law-journal-quotes-hunter-shkolnik-on-foam-lawsuits\/"},"modified":"2022-06-27T02:28:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T06:28:44","slug":"national-law-journal-quotes-hunter-shkolnik-on-foam-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"whitepapers","link":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/whitepapers\/national-law-journal-quotes-hunter-shkolnik-on-foam-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"National Law Journal Quotes Hunter Shkolnik on Foam Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturers of foams used to fight fuel fires have\u00a0asked to coordinate about 85 lawsuits\u00a0that allege\u00a0toxic chemicals in their products have leaked into drinking water, putting residents at risk of getting cancer and other illnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The cases span seven states: Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington. 3M Co. filed a\u00a0motion\u00a0two days later to add nine more lawsuits\u00a0from Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota and upstate New York.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a case we\u2019ve been aggressively litigating for two years now,\u201d said <a href=\"\/napoli-attorney\/hunter-shkolnik\/\">Hunter Shkolnik<\/a>, whose New York firm, Napoli Shkolnik, is involved in a large share of the foam cases, including the Colorado class action. \u201cAnd, on the eve of a class certification in Colorado, the defendants are doing everything in their power to remove the case from Judge Jackson. And it\u2019s nothing more than forum shopping.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturers of foams used to fight fuel fires have\u00a0asked to coordinate about 85 lawsuits\u00a0that allege\u00a0toxic chemicals in their products have leaked into drinking water, putting residents at risk of getting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"menu_order":362,"template":"","whitepaper_category":[57,96],"whitepaper-source":[80],"class_list":["post-2519","whitepapers","type-whitepapers","status-publish","hentry","whitepaper_category-hunter-shkolnik","whitepaper_category-pfoa-water-contamination","whitepaper-source-national-law-journal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/whitepapers"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepapers\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"whitepaper_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper_category?post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"whitepaper-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napolilaw.lemonadestand.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/whitepaper-source?post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}