SGR’s defense team of Steve O’Day, Chris Bowers, Jessica Lee Reece and Josie Nackers secured summary judgment for its trucking client in a long-running claim against it for clean up costs at a site in Dalton, Georgia.  Barrett Properties, LLC, et al v. CCL Enterprises, Inc., et al, Superior Court of Whitfield County, Georgia (Order, May 13, 2011). In 1995, SGR’s client made a one-time delivery of 1,1,1 trichloroethane (“TCA”) to an adhesives manufacturing plant, at which time approximately 500 gallons of the TCA leaked out of the truck.  Under a Consent Order with the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (“EPD”),… Read more