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March 30, 2010
R.R. Street prevails in Modesto case

SAN FRANCISCO — Attorneys from Houston-based Hicks Thomas LLP announced a trial judge’s ruling issued Friday in favor of Naperville, Ill.-based R.R. Street & Co. Inc. in an environmental contamination lawsuit filed by the City of Modesto, Calif., and a related local agency.

May 20, 2009
R.R. Street & Co. Inc. Wins Favorable Verdict in Long-Running Modesto Lawsuit

NAPERVILLE, Ill. — After hearing evidence for five months and deliberating for weeks, a jury issued a second verdict of no liability in favor of R.R. Street & Co. Inc. yesterday, effectively putting an end to a more than decade-long contamination-cleanup case.

The suit was filed in 1998 by the City of Modesto, Calif., and sought more than $162 million in damages and costs from multiple defendants for the perchloroethylene contamination of city drinking water.

October 15, 2007
Vulcan Settles with City of Modesto

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (October 15, 2007) — Vulcan Materials Co. announced Friday that it has reached a settlement with the City of Modesto, Calif., to resolve all claims of alleged perchloroethylene groundwater contamination.

Vulcan will pay Modesto $20 million to remove itself from a lawsuit filed by the city in 1998 against providers and users of perc. A judge ordered the company to pay $7.25 million in punitive damages for one phase of cleanup in the first part of the trial, decided last year.

September 19, 2007
Modesto Contamination Spawns New Lawsuit

MODESTO, Calif. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is suing the former landlords of a Modesto drycleaning operation to recover $9 million in expenses it says was pent cleaning up perchloroethylene contamination in the city’s groundwater, according to a recent story in the Modesto Bee.