London judges reverse course to reopen $7 billion Brazil dam lawsuit against BHP

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London’s Court of Appeal made a U-turn on Tuesday by agreeing to reopen a $7 billion lawsuit by 200,000 claimants against Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP, reviving a case over a dam rupture behind Brazil’s worst environmental disaster. Lawyers for one of the largest group claims in English legal history have been pushing to resurrect the …

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