Legal Opinion
Phillips v. E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided August 14, 2007No. 05-35648, 05-35651, 05-35678, 05-35866, 05-35892, 05-35895, 06-35165PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SCHROEDER, Chief Circuit Judge:
7. Introduction.
The origins of this case trace back more than sixty years to the height of World War II when the federal government solicited Appellants E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., General Electric, Inc., UNC Nuclear Industries, Inc., Atlantic Richfield Co., and Rockwell International Corp., (collectively “Defendants”) to operate the Han-ford Nuclear Weapons Reservation (“Han-ford”) in southeastern Washington. The Hanford Reservation was a plutonium-production facility that helped make the atomic bomb that dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in World War II.
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