Meteorological Litigation Support Services

Examples of Air Quality Legal Cases

• Expert on crop residue exposures on organic farming operation.
• Expert testimony involving a major superfund site with exposures via inhalation and surface depositions.
• Rocky Mountain Arsenal Federal case (Basin F, Remediation Air Quality Impacts). Mr. Sullivan was the air quality expert selected by the Colorado Attorney General’s office in a case involving the state of California and the U.S. Department of Justice.
• Chlorine release at industrial facility in the southeast. David Sullivan testified in court regarding expected exposures associated with an accidental release at a chemical facility.
• Air quality incident at a major metropolitan area in Louisiana. Mr. Sullivan conducted an air quality analysis of airborne exposures on a metropolitan scale associated with a chemical release resulting from a barge accident.
• Expert in lead smelter case in major metropolitan area, evaluating airborn and deposition related impacts.

Examples of Meteorological Legal Cases

• Cases involving tornadoes allegedly causing personal injury. The staff of Sullivan Environmental provided a deposition and court testimony.
• Cases involving wind damage that allegedly caused personal injury. Two of these cases involved depositions.
• Cases allegedly involving visibility-related issues associated with a traffic accident. One case was criminal and two were civil.
• Slip-fall cases where Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Hlinka provided expert review.
• Reconstruction of neighborhood scale exposures to beryllium from a World War II vintage manufacturing facility.
• Reconstructing exposures from a major accidental chemical spill into a waterway in the southern U.S.
• Analyses of the distribution of odors in the vicinity of a manufacturing facilities.