Erin Brockovich to visit site of recent coal ash spill.
Erin Brockovich to visit site of recent coal ash spill.
Last week, 5.4 million cubic yards of toxic coal sludge burst through a retention wall at a TVA facility in eastern Tennessee, causing massive property and environmental damage. Now, the Knoxville News Sentinel reports that environmental activist Erin Brockovich is scheduled to visit the site of the spill to meet with Tennessee residents worried about the fallout of the TVA spill:
Brockovich expects a class-action lawsuit to result from the TVA spill as well, but said she’s coming to provide information, not to recruit plaintiffs. … Attorneys from the New York law firm Weitz & Luxenberg will accompany her. An exact date, time and place haven’t been set. “I’m not going to be there to push anything on anybody,” she said. “We are coming in hopes to help, not to cause anymore grief.”
The first lawsuit related to the spill was filed on Tuesday.
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Go Erin!
[at the meeting with the PG & E lawyers]
Ms. Sanchez: Let’s be honest here. $20 million dollars is more money then these people have ever dreamed of.
Erin Brockovich: Oh see, now that pisses me off. First of all, since the demur we have more than 400 plaintiffs and… let’s be honest, we all know there are more out there. They may not be the most sophisticated people but they do know how to divide and $20 million isn’t *shit* when you split it between them. Second of all, these people don’t dream about being rich. They dream about being able to watch their kids swim in a pool without worrying that they’ll have to have a hysterectomy at the age of *twenty*. Like Rosa Diaz, a client of ours. Or have their spine deteriorate, like Stan Blume, *another* client of ours. So before you come back here with another lame ass offer, I want you to think real hard about what your spine is worth, Mr. Walker. Or what you might expect someone to pay you for your uterus, Ms. Sanchez. Then you take out your calculator and you multiply that number by a hundred. Anything less than that is a waste of our time
January 1st, 2009 at 12:39 pmAt least Erin will speak the truth about the causes and effects of the coal ash spill.
I’m tired of the “news” anchors talking about it as if it’s some amazing natural disaster. Idiots.
January 1st, 2009 at 12:49 pmNow now – let’s not jump to conclusions here, calling this pollution and toxic sludge. After all, this ash might be some of that “clean coal” we’ve been hearing about.
January 1st, 2009 at 1:22 pmQuestion: When has an energy company ever lost a lawsuit where they didn’t simply pass along the costs to the consumer? And they then somehow managed to take huge tax write-offs and make a profit off of the damages paid, if any!
I’m thinking of the Exxon Valdez, Enron, PG&E in the Brockovich/Hinkley case, even Three Mile Island, to name but a few.
PEACE
January 1st, 2009 at 1:29 pmFor the record, Brockovich has been doing television commercials – soliciting clients for Weitz & Luxenberg. This is about legal fees.
January 1st, 2009 at 1:40 pmspencers mom:
January 1st, 2009 at 1:55 pmDid you ever follow the Bhopal Union Carbide story? Those bastards were allowed to call it an accident…
Those bastards deserve to have the livin’ crap sued out of ‘em. Enough to make taking proper care of waste in the first place seem cheap.
January 1st, 2009 at 2:00 pmDavidHart Says:
For the record, Brockovich has been doing television commercials – soliciting clients for Weitz & Luxenberg. This is about legal fees.
January 1st, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Right. It’s just a bunch of activist lawyers doing their activist lawying. Right.
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/31/tennessee_landowners_file_165m_suit_over
January 1st, 2009 at 2:33 pmDavidHart Says:
For the record, Brockovich has been doing television commercials – soliciting clients for Weitz & Luxenberg. This is about legal fees.
January 1st, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Love the attitude, DavidHart. I guess no one should ever sue any company for destroying their lives and property — because lawyers might make some money.
F ucking dork.
January 1st, 2009 at 2:45 pm“pro bono”
January 1st, 2009 at 3:01 pmDavidHart Says:
For the record, Brockovich has been doing television commercials – soliciting clients for Weitz & Luxenberg. This is about legal fees.
January 1st, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Fuuking maroon! Sure, lawyers should take on the wealthiest corporations in the fuuking planet, pro bone?
david, you’re a dickhead, pure and simple…
January 1st, 2009 at 3:01 pmthe fuuking planet, pro bone?
meant to type Pro Bono…obviously
January 1st, 2009 at 3:02 pmDavidHart Says:
For the record, Brockovich has been doing television commercials – soliciting clients for Weitz & Luxenberg. This is about legal fees.
January 1st, 2009 at 1:40 pm
Legal fees for garnering a huge settlement, and rightfully so, for all losses, inconveniences, pain and suffering inflicted on the plaintiffs.
I didn’t read a condemnation of TVA in your post. Was this your great opportunity to take a shot at trial lawyers?
January 1st, 2009 at 3:04 pmtokin librul Says:
pro bone?
Method of payment to Larry Craig’s attorneys.
January 1st, 2009 at 3:06 pmNever touch the big guy — that encroaches on liberties. Let them do whatever they choose — it’s called freedom. Take it and shut up — it’s called personal responsibility.
January 1st, 2009 at 3:08 pmMcWars Says:
Never touch the big guy — that encroaches on liberties. Let them do whatever they choose — it’s called freedom. Take it and shut up — it’s called personal responsibility.
January 1st, 2009 at 3:08 pm
I think you’ve wrapped up the Republican point of view quite nicely, McWars. :-)
Happy New Year!
January 1st, 2009 at 3:17 pmHappy New Year, Zoo!
January 1st, 2009 at 3:30 pmGood for Ms. Brockovich!
January 1st, 2009 at 4:06 pmI read DavidHart and now I’m convinced that trial lawyers caused the spill.
January 1st, 2009 at 4:12 pmDH says it’s all about money.
January 1st, 2009 at 4:38 pmSure — the keeping of it away from people who have lost everything and find themselves in a toxic mess.
I guess corporations are never supposed to have to pay for the damage they wreak. Sounds like pure repugnism: it’s the people’s fault for living there.
Republicans try to smear trial lawyers for a very good reason – their only constituency (the rich) wants to get away with doing illegal things.
Watch for a wingnut bobblehead to say soon that the ash spill can be cleaned up with tort reform.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:29 pmYo,DavidHart, The people affected by this stuff-up
are certainly free to consider any offers of
compensation without those pesky lawers taking their
cut. But put yourself in their shoes for a minute
and contemplate whether they’re giving me what I
deserve or simply trying to pay me off as cheaply
as possible.
Remember, the representatives of PG&E at first tried
January 1st, 2009 at 7:21 pmto convince the residents that the heavy metals in
their water was actually healthy for them!
Contigency lawyers only take cases which they know or think they know will produce revenue — generally 40% contingency fee. Cases which are generally not sure things –that is where liability is at issue or the law is not evolved or there is an issue of causation — will more than likely be ignorred. One can certainly wonder whether this is a good system of justice or an effective way of spreading the risks of living in the world.
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:55 amSEugster Says:
Contigency lawyers only take cases which they know or think they know will produce revenue — generally 40% contingency fee…
Often, with politicized situations like this one, there victims involved will get plenty of pro bono offers of representation; either because the publicity helps the lawyers by itself, or from an organization dedicated to the purpose of helping such people.
Even if not entirely free, I think in a case such as this one, the victims could get a highly reduced % rate for excellent representation.
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:24 amI have a great idea you bunch of goof balls! Lets turn our power off! Yeah that will show TVA who the boss is! Wake up! All you can do is take TVA at their word that they will stay true to making things right. It has only been 2 weeks. In the end it will all come back on us anyway, after all the TVA is the federal goverment!
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