Massachusetts Appeals Court September 27, 2002, No. 99-P-459 (Mattoon v. City of Pittsfield)

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Smith, J.

In June of 1988, the plaintiffs brought a class action complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, claiming that they had contracted giardiasis (an illness caused by giardia, a parasite found in the intestines of certain animals) as a result of contamination of the public water supply of the city of Pittsfield (city) in November and