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fredag, juli 16, 2010

Multi-million-dollar award against food giant Dole thrown out‏

Los Angeles Times
July 15, 2010
3:06 p.m.
A judge threw out a multimillion-dollar award Thursday granted by an L.A. jury to six Nicaraguan men in a lawsuit against food giant Dole, finding that fraud by American and Nicaraguan attorneys had tainted the trial
California 2nd District Court of Appeal Judge Victoria G. Chaney issued the ruling after presiding over the original six-month trial, which resulted in a $2.3-million verdict against Dole.
Tellez vs. Dole Food Co. marked the first case tried in the U.S. over injuries, dating from the 1970s, allegedly caused by the chemical dibromochloropropane, or DBCP, which Dole continued to apply in Central America after it was banned in the U.S. over concerns that it caused sterility.

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