Legal Opinion
Johnnie B. Taylor v. Monsanto Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 5, 1998No. 97-2469PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.
At least to the outside observer, some eases appear to be unevenly balanced clashes between a titan of industry and a hapless individual. This case is not one of them. Instead, the central question before us is whether the Monsanto Company, one of the country’s largest manufacturers of chemicals, lulled the Westinghouse Electric Company, a major user of those chemicals, into the erroneous view that polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were safe for human health. The question arises in a case brought by several employees of Westinghouse, who are now trying to recover…
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