AAR wins Michigan case

WOOD DALE - AAR Corp. said Tuesday that the Wexford County Circuit Court issued a decision on Aug. 7 fully exonerating its subsidiary, AAR Manufacturing Inc., in a case brought by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. The court found that AAR Manufacturing was not responsible in any respect for the alleged release of environmental contamination at and in the vicinity of its Cadillac, Mich., facility. The court's decision, following a 12-day trial that ended in February, upheld the company's position that the evidence did not establish that there was a release of contaminants at or near the Cadillac facility since a 1985 consent decree. The Court further held that there was no relevant evidence suggesting that the company was not in full compliance with the 1985 consent decree.