Dole Food Inc., the world’s largest fresh fruit and vegetables producer, can’t be forced in the U.S. to pay a $97 million verdict issued by a Nicaraguan court, a federal judge said on Tuesday.
Dole and Dow Chemical were found liable by the Nicaraguan court for allegedly exposing banana plantation workers to a pesticide that left them sterile. (The claims mirrored those tossed last April in a fire-breathing ruling by a Los Angeles state court judge who found plaintiffs lawyers had committed a fraud on the court; for the full backstory on how Dole and Gibson Dunn exposed the fraudulent claims check out this Corporate Counsel cover story by David Hechler.)
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