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US District Judge Hala Y. Jarbou sided with Graphic Packaging International and 21 government defendants and threw out the lawsuit filed on behalf of the Northside Kalamazoo residents, who were demanding compensation for damages from decades of toxic pollution in their neighborhood.

Residents of Kalamazoo's Northside neighborhood have filed a lawsuit against a slew of government agencies and officials and business executives, claiming air pollution from a cardboard packaging plant in the area caused their health problems and their complaints have been ignored because they are Black.