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Navy petroleum contamination

HONOLULU — A federal court in Hawaii dismissed parts of negligence claims brought by military families against the government for a petroleum fuel leak that contaminated their water supply. The claims that the Navy failed to warn the families and to test the water is barred by a Federal Torts Claims Act exception.

Read the ruling here.

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