Legal Opinion
Richard Leander Ferebee, Jr. v. Chevron Chemical Company
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 12, 1984No. 83-1106PublishedCited by 267 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge MIKVA.
MIKVA, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal by Chevron Chemical Company from a judgment rendered against it after a jury trial in a suit brought by the minor children and the estate of Richard Ferebee. Ferebee, an agricultural worker at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC), an installation of the United States Department of Agriculture located in Beltsville, Maryland, allegedly contracted pulmonary fibrosis as a result of long-term skin exposure to di lute solutions of paraquat, a herbicide distributed in the United States solely by…
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