Legal Opinion
Prescott v. United States
District Court, D. Nevada
Decided September 9, 1981No. Civil LV 80-143 RDFPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION ON MOTIONS
ROGER D. FOLEY, District Judge.
Plaintiff Keith L. Prescott alleges that he is a resident of Utah and is suffering from multiple myeloma, a permanently disabling disease causing rapid and advanced aging. He claims that he contracted the disease as a result of exposure to radiation while he was employed at the Nevada Test Site between 1961 and 1968. He claims that the disease was not medically diagnosed until 1969, that he was permanently disabled by then, and that it was not until early 1979 that he began to suspect a causal connection between exposure at the Test Site and…
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