Carmen R.
Toledo

Represented a forestry products company in an evidentiary hearing before the Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality, which resulted in findings rejecting plaintiffs' claims that the company had illegally disposed of wastes on their properties.

Obtained dismissal of medical monitoring and RCRA claims in groundwater contamination mass joinder cases in Oklahoma federal court.

Representing an international energy company in the negotiation and settlement of related class action, mass joinder and municipal enforcement actions in Madison County, Illinois, asserting property damage and medical monitoring claims from alleged exposure to groundwater contamination.

Defeated class certification in an alleged groundwater contamination case in Oklahoma federal court; in an occupational exposure case in New Jersey state court; and in a breast implant case in Utah state court.

Won a motion to exclude plaintiffs' valuation economist in Oklahoma federal court.

Represented a carbon black manufacturer in mass joinder lawsuits filed in West Virginia by hundreds of current and former neighbors.

Represented Union Carbide Corporation as part of a national coordinating counsel team in individual and class action litigation in 19 states, involving personal injury, wrongful death, medical monitoring and fraud claims arising from alleged exposures to vinyl chloride.

Obtained dismissal of fraud, conspiracy and injunctive relief claims asserted in a mass joinder case pending in Mississippi federal court that asserts personal injury and property damage claims as a result of alleged illegal disposal of hazardous wastes.

Successfully defended Hercules Incorporated in a number of Georgia, Mississippi and Texas cases involving alleged exposure to toxaphene and other chemicals.

Coordinated settlement of numerous complex property damage class actions with the aid of geographic information system (GIS) technology.