Legal Opinion
Philip Morris, Inc. v. Emerson
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided April 22, 1988No. Record Nos. 841374, 841385, 841405, 841549, 841560 and 841564PublishedCited by 149 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWhiting, J.
I. FACTS
From the early 1960’s to 1969, Texaco, Inc. (Texaco) conducted experiments on rocket fuels and filaments in a laboratory *388facility it owned in Richmond, using a liquid known as pentaborane. Pentaborane is highly toxic to humans; a pharmacologist who had investigated the characteristics and effects of pentaborane for the United States Air Force, described it as a “supertoxic” chemical. Brief exposure to five parts of pentaborane to a billion parts of air is fatal. Pentaborane is 2,000 times as deadly as hydrogen cyanide, the gas commonly used for execution in gas chambers. A dose of…
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