[CPEO-MEF] Judge dismisses claims over toxins released from Oak Ridge nuclear

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Judge dismisses claims over toxins released from Oak Ridge nuclear
weapons complex

Friday, September 27, 2002
By Duncan Mansfield, Associated Press

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. ? A federal judge has thrown out two lawsuits seeking
compensation for potentially hundreds of thousands of people over toxins
released from the Oak Ridge nuclear weapons complex.

Some plaintiffs allege pollution from the complex has given them cancer
and other illnesses, but U.S. District Judge James Jarvis said their
lawsuits came too late to meet Tennessee's one-year statute of
limitations. Jarvis also said there was not enough common interest
between the plaintiffs to support a class action.

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