Mest v. Cabot Corp.

OPINION OF THE COURT

FUENTES, Circuit Judge.

Wayne and Suzanne Hallowell and Merrill and Betty Mest are dairy farmers whose cows suffered from various ailments over the course of twenty years before being diagnosed with fluorosis in 1999. 1 Upon learning the cause of their cows’ symptoms, the Hallowells and the Mests sued Cabot Corporation and Cabot Performance Materials (collectively, “Cabot”) alleging, among other things, that Cabot engaged in the systematic poisoning of their dairy cows and farmland over several decades. Specifically, they claim that the hydrogen fluoride Cabot released from…