RECENT FEDERAL DECISIONS

March 2005

To read this entire item of approximately 610 words online now in PDF format: Click here to read this item if you are an existing subscriber to this publication. Click here to purchase the full text of this item to read now (price: $25). To subscribe to this publication and immediately access all its archives including this item, select the relevant publication under 'Catalogue' in the left-hand column PLEASE NOTE: to read PDFs on www.argento.com you must be using Version 5 of Acrobat Reader or Adobe Reader. If you have an earlier version you can download the latest free of charge by clicking here

District Court Remands to State Court a Negligence Per Se Claim Premised on Violation of the Federal Safe Drinking Water Act
Harding-Wright v. District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, ___F.Supp.2d___

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ruled that federal court jurisdiction does not exist on a claim of negligence per se premised upon violations of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). The court ruled that the negligence per se claim is merely an alternative to the negligence claim, and therefore will not support jurisdiction in federal court.