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I'm certain they do. But if the highly paid lawyers for the Norfolk Southern Railway argue that they can't be liable for a future illness that may not even strike the victim, hopefully there's still remedy for East Palestine residents. It'll be the games the lawyers will play, meanwhile the compensation of citizens will hang in the balance. The railroad corporations have a lot of legal protections apparently.
For now I would say it is about the residents of that town getting as much money as possible from those irresponsible people so they can afford to move from there before they start to suffer from serious deceases.
Even though the railroad company may have good lawyers, the public is against them and the damages are some blatantly obvious that a jury would likely rule in favor of the affected residents.
Right. The US is built on common law. Common law is the law of the people, not government statutes. It's too bad that people don't understand common law and how it works, or this trouble wouldn't exist in the first place.
Why not?
Because the railroad would make sure that something like this spill wouldn't happen. They would do it because the people might be able to destroy the whole railroad using common law... if the people only knew.
Government doesn't like the power the people have in common law. So they hide the fact of common law as much as they can.
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