Christopher Thompson v. Southern Pacific Transportation Co., D/B/A Southern Pacific Railroad Co., Monsanto Corporation

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

A railroad brakeman worked at various times during a three-year period aboard a train that entered an industrial plant site contaminated by dioxin. After he had been fired by the railroad for being intoxicated on the job, he sued the owner of the contaminated area contending that a disease from which he was suffering, porphyria, had been caused by his exposure to dioxin. The jury returned a verdict in his favor, but, finding that the worker had failed to offer any substantial evidence to support the thesis that his disease was caused by his exposure, we reverse…