[CPEO-MEF] Rocky Flats case goes to jury

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rocky Flats case getting closer to end

Final arguments wrapping up, jury to decide if contractors contaminated area

By Ann Imse
Rocky Mountain News (CO)
January 20, 2006

A federal district court jury will be asked today to decide whether two
former operators of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant should pay
half a billion dollars in damages for contaminating the property of some
13,000 neighbors of the facility. 

The class-action lawsuit, filed 16 years ago by people who owned land
and homes in the area, is wrapping up with closing arguments before U.S.
District Judge John Kane. 

Rockwell International Corp. and Dow Chemical Co. ran the plant for
decades on behalf of the Atomic Energy Commission and its successor, the
Department of Energy. 

The companies are accused of contaminating neighboring land with tiny
but lethal amounts of plutonium. 

If the companies lose, the federal government is expected to pay the
damages on their behalf. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4401749,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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