Koch brothers' petcoke firm threatens lawsuit over city rules

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10. Class Action Law Suit against the Koch's?

Have the laws protecting polluters been so weakened that people endangered by this toxic, carginogenic dust cannot even ban together to sue these sociopathic brothers? I remember thinking, when they let this deadly crap fly in south Detroit,
that every single person "dusted" should sue the Kochs for a million. A few thousand victims banning together could put a real dent in their eighty billion. Just being exposed causes enormous pain and suffering; imagine knowing that this poisoning is going to bring you a painful and premature death. That to me seems the definition of pain and suffering from corporate irresponsibility
and a lawsuit against the Kochs for poisoning society with their Kochdust is like a second hand smoke case on steroids.


This is why a major plank in the Rove/Koch corporate longterm agenda is to ultimately destroy the ability for people to file class action lawsuits...they've attacked both the lawyers (esp big Dem donors Dem) and the laws themselves with SCOTUS' collusion. Whether it's seeking protection/compensation from Koch deadly dust or poisoned water or exploding trains taking out whole towns, the power to wage class action lawsuits has been deliberately & efficiently weakened to the point that society cannot even protect themselves from the most brazen and obvious corporate poisoning.