A Philadelphia judge who threw out the case of Illinois residents who allege that many cases of brain cancer and tumors were caused by exposure to a toxic chemical has refused to recuse himself from the case and rejected the plaintiffs’ motion for reconsideration.
The counsel for Joanne Branham, who sued Rohm & Haas over her husband Franklin Delano Branham’s death from brain cancer, said in a recent motion that Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Allan L. Tereshko’s actions in Branham v. Rohm & Haas showed the “court’s susceptibility to strong emotion and the court’s inability to act in control of those emotions to assure the fair adjudications of these important proceedings.”
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