New Orleans residents’ request for environmental testing and cleanup at a Superfund site where homes were built on a landfill was dismissed, after a federal court said their suit was barred due to a consent decree.
Judge Sarah S. Vance, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, granted the city’s motion to dismiss the case Thursday for residents’ failure to state a claim.
Residents of Gordon Plaza brought a complaint in the form of a citizen suit under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act in May. They claimed the mayor and city of New Orleans imposed ...