CARTHAGE, Mo. —
A Jasper County circuit court judge has rejected arguments for a class action lawsuit against Renewable Environmental Solutions of Carthage.
Two Carthage women are suing the plant for damages they say they suffered due to odors from the now-closed operation. But motions that the suit be expanded to a class action has been rejected in a ruling by Circuit Judge David Dally.
Dally ruled the arguments on behalf of Cynthia Sundy and Tricia Orr did not prove there was enough in common among people around the plant for them to be combined in a class action.
Rhon Jones, attorney for the two plaintiffs, said the ruling may be appealed and that the case will go forward.
“We’ve not made decision on whether to appeal at this time, but I believe there will be a case,” he said. “What form it will take and how it will proceed, we’ll have to look at in the coming days and weeks. But there’s no doubt in my mind the RES plant was omitting an offensive odor.”
