Legal Opinion
Dumontier v. Schlumberger Technology Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 11, 2008No. 05-36005PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KOZINSKI, Chief Judge:
We consider whether subcellular damage amounts to bodily injury under the Price-Anderson Act.
Facts
Schlumberger Technology Corporation’s employees carelessly left some cesium-137 on a drilling rig. Plaintiffs later worked on the rig and were exposed. Though less well known than uranium or plutonium, cesium isn’t a substance to be toyed with. Unprotected exposure can cause burns, radiation sickness and cancer; if ingested, it causes mania. Randal C. Nelson, Songs of Cesium (1996), http://www.cs.roches ter.edu/u/nelson/eesium/cesi-um_songs.html.
Plaintiffs have not developed…
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