[CPEO-MEF] HEALTH: "Supreme Court won't hear $750 million Fort Detrick [MD] contamination death lawsuit"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Supreme Court won't hear $750 million Fort Detrick contamination death lawsuit

By Cameron Dodd 
Frederick News Post (M<D)
May 25, 2018 

Cancer survivor Louise Mason has waited years for an apology from the U.S. government for what she sees as its role in causing her, her family and other Frederick County residents to get ill and even die.

“It just breaks my heart that you can’t even get them to say, ‘We’re sorry,’” Mason said. “Maybe they didn’t realize what the effects were going to be, but I wanted a wrong to be right.”

Mason is among a class of plaintiffs seeking $750 million for harm and death caused by exposure to hazardous materials from Fort Detrick. The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied their request for review of lower courts’ decisions dismissing the case.

“The government can buy off anyone they want, and I think they were bought off,” Mason said. “There is enough evidence to prove the contamination.”

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For the entire article, see
https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/crime_and_justice/courts/supreme-court-won-t-hear-million-fort-detrick-contamination-death/article_a1bea783-d6c1-5dad-8969-53f7eb743bd8.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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