The DuPont Co. has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to throw out a $14 million jury verdict awarded in 2005 to an oyster fisherman who claimed chemicals from a Gulf Coast plant caused his blood cancer. The plaintiff claimed dioxins entered his body through the air and by eating locally harvested oysters. DuPont claims it was unfairly prevented from calling experts to testify, and questioned whether the lower court was fair in judging the company based on the plaintiff's "reliance on junk science."
February 13, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The DuPont Co. has asked the Mississippi Supreme Court to throw out a $14 million jury verdict awarded to an oyster fisherman who claimed chemicals from a Gulf Coast plant caused his rare blood cancer.
The award to Glen Strong of Bay St. Louis, Miss., in August 2005 came in the first of nearly 2,000 cases against the second largest titanium dioxide maker in the nation.
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