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(CN) A Florida man is asking a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit to revive his lawsuit claiming that his late wife’s kidney cancer was caused by industrial runoff from a Pratt & Whitney aerospace plant nearby their marital home in a rural South Florida community.
More than a decade deep into the litigation, Marcos Pinares took his case back to the Miami division of the federal appellate court. He’s fighting to keep his lawsuit alive over Pratty & Whitney’s alleged contamination of the Acreage community in Palm Beach County.
The Acreage was the site of a highly publicized pediatric brain cancer cluster that was confirmed by the Florida Department of Health in 2009. After the cluster was identified, a string of toxic tort lawsuits flowed into South Florida courts, alleging that pollution from Pratt & Whitney’s plant had migrated into the well water of nearby Acreage homes.
Chiquita Fails to Halt Suit Over Colombia Torture, Murder Chiquita Brands International Inc. (CQB), owner of the namesake banana label, failed to halt U.S. lawsuits brought by thousands of Colombians who said they or their relatives were tortured or killed by militias the company paid. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra in West Palm Beach, Florida, today denied Chiquitaâs motion to dismiss some of the claims brought under the Alien Tort Statute and the Torture Victim Protection Act.The.company was fined $25 million by the U.S. after pleading guilty in March 2007.for paying Colombian paramilitary militias $1.7 million from 1997 to 2004.âWhile the court allowed some claims to move forward, it is important to understand that at this stage of the proceedings, the court is required by law to treat plaintiffsâ outrageous and false allegations as if they were true,â Ed Loyd, a company spokesman, said.
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