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		<title>Settlement deal near for Chinese drywall victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LVillanueva</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A deal to begin paying some of the thousands of victims of toxic Chinese drywall may be near, if a persistent federal judge has his way today.
On Tuesday in New Orleans, U.S. Judge Eldon Fallon will bring together major defendants in several consolidated multi-district litigations with the sole intent of nearing terms of a settlement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gift Cards for Chinese Drywall Victims?  Really?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LVillanueva</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chinese Drywall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How about a gift card for all the damage toxic fumes from Chinese drywall have done to your home?  Well, that&#8217;s apparently what retailer Lowe&#8217;s is offering in a proposed class action lawsuit settlement.  Under the settlement proposal, plaintiffs would receive Lowe’s gift cards in amounts ranging from $50 to $2,000 if it is adopted. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Homeowners Awarded $2.4 Million in Chinese Drywall Lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A victory for tainted wallboard victims in Florida. Last Friday, a Miami-Dade Circuit Court  jury awarded Chinese drywall plaintiffs, Lisa and Armin Seifart, $2.4 million for their home damage in the first U.S. jury trial involving defective Chinese  drywall.
The jury deemed Miami-based Banner Supply Co. was 55 percent  responsible and Knauf Plasterboard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CPSC Names Manufacturers of Toxic Chinese Drywall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 14:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Consumer Products Safety  Commission has finally released the names of drywall manufacturers whose wallboard emitted  high levels of hydrogen sulfide in testing conducted by Lawrence  Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). There is a strong affiliation between  hydrogen sulfide and metal corrosion.
Of the products tested, all top ten reactive sulfur-emitting drywall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Fallon Finalizes Chinese Drywall Judgement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 18:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon has finalized judgments against Knauf Plasterboard  Tianjin Co. Ltd. and Taishan Gypsum Co. Ltd. in the anxiously awaited Chinese drywall litigation in New Orleans  federal court. Under federal rules, the drywall  manufacturers have 30 days to appeal the judgments. If no appeal is made, the judgments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gut the Homes and Pay 2.6 Million, Says Chinese Drywall Judge</title>
		<link>http://www.americas-watchdog.com/gut-the-homes-and-pay-2-6-million-says-chinese-drywall-judge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.americas-watchdog.com/gut-the-homes-and-pay-2-6-million-says-chinese-drywall-judge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. District Court Judge Eldon E. Fallon has ruled the owners of seven Virginia homes contaminated with toxic Chinese drywall deserve $2.6 million. Judge Fallon, overseeing Chinese drywall  multidistrict litigation (MDL) in New Orleans, also ordered that plaintiffs’ homes be gutted down to the studs and that the owners should be compensated for personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Drywall Homes Repaired Before Remediation Guidance Might Need Further Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It&#8217;s inevitable this would happen. New Chinese drywall guidelines compiled by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) and the Department of Housing and Human Development (HUD) are frustrating for homeowners who have already completed home repairs. What if the work did not comply with the new  federal remediation process?
Since late 2008, the CPSC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CPSC and HUD Say Gut Chinese Drywall Homes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksager</dc:creator>
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The Consumer Products Safety  Commission (CPSC) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development(HUD) have released a statement concerning  homes that contain toxic  Chinese drywall. They must be gutted. Not only does the toxic drywall need replacing, but also electrical components, wiring, gas service piping, fire sprinkler systems, carbon monoxide alarms and smoke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Drywall Test Case Begins in New Orleans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, a Louisiana family&#8217;s Chinese drywall nightmare was described during opening statements in the first contested Chinese drywall trial in New  Orleans federal court.  This test trial case, known as a bellwether, is intended to  help ascertain property damage issues in other cases against manufacturers.
More than 2,000 families currently have claims pending in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nine Deaths in Homes Containing Chinese Drywall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ksager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since nine people living in Chinese drywall tainted homes have died from various maladies, some lawmakers want an explanation.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune wrote the Consumer Products Safety  Commission (CPSC) said among the Chinese drywall  complaints it has received, deaths were reported, although presently, there is no substantiated scientific evidence linking the deaths to [...]]]></description>
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