Retired Nevada Supreme Court Justice Abbi Silver has filed a lawsuit against Real Water, alleging that the company’s bottled water caused the ALS that killed her husband.
Kirk Jaster was diagnosed with ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease in February 2022, according to the complaint filed in Clark County District Court on Tuesday. That August, Silver resigned from the court to care for him, the suit said, and he died in September 2024 “as a result of complications from ALS.”
Affinitylifestyles.com, the Las Vegas company behind Real Water, billed its product as “the healthiest drinking water available” when it contained a toxic chemical used in rocket fuel.
Juries have previously delivered multibillion-dollar verdicts against the company, including more than $3 billion in March, another $3 billio