3M Missed Window to Move State’s PFAS Case to Federal Court

Chemicals manufacturer 3M Co. failed to remove New Hampshire’s PFAS contamination case to federal court in time, the First Circuit said Thursday in a decision affirming the case belongs in state court.

3M could have reasonably concluded two years earlier that New Hampshire’s per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) pollution lawsuit, initially filed in state court, was removable to federal court, according to an opinion filed in the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Judges William J. Kayatta, Julie Rikelman, and Jeffrey R. Howard sat on ...