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Maryland & South Carolina PFAS Lawsuits Stay in Federal Court — What the Supreme Court’s Silence Means for You If you lived near a military base in Maryland or South Carolina and you or someone you love has been diagnosed with kidney cancer, testicular cancer, thyroid disease, or ulcerative colitis, the news you just read about the Supreme Court declining to hear Maryland and South Carolina’s appeal probably felt like a door closing. It is not. The Supreme Court’s decision to let the Fourth Circuit’s ruling stand means the states’ environmental damage cases against 3M will proceed in federal court rather than state court. That is a procedural ruling about where the states’ cases sit. It says nothing about whether an individual person who drank PFAS-contaminated water and got sick can pursue a claim. That path is open, and it runs through the AFFF multidistrict litigation already underway in the District of South Carolina. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle toxic tort and catastrophic injury cases, and we are writing this for one person: someone who just searched “PFAS lawsuit” after hearing that Maryland and South Carolina lost their bid to keep their cases in state…