( August 24, 2026, 11:13 AM EDT) -- BATON ROUGE, La. — A Louisiana appeals court panel vacated judgment in a groundwater contamination lawsuit filed by a group of individuals and businesses that own property near the former Dresser Industrial Valve Operations Facility in Rapides Parish, La., that required the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) to direct responsible parties to submit a plan addressing the alleged pollution, holding that the plaintiffs improperly sought declaratory relief through a summary proceeding and that the trial court imposed an unrequested mandatory injunction without an evidentiary hearing....