Mealey's (September 16, 2022, 3:23 PM EDT) -- CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A federal judge in New York on Sept. 2 declined to reconsider her ruling that a proposed consent judgment in a separate case did not preclude a local water system operator’s current claims that companies violated the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and state law by contaminating the system’s wells and further declined to stay discovery proceedings, rejecting the companies’ argument that a stay was required to conserve judicial resources....