Legal Opinion
Burdine v. Dow Chemical Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 18, 1991No. 89-2835PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BEAM, Circuit Judge.
Appellants appeal an order of the district court1 granting summary judgment in favor of Dow Chemical Company. Appellants argue that Dow Chemical should be equitably estopped from asserting a statute of limitations defense against appellants’ tort claims. We disagree and affirm.
I. BACKGROUND
The appellants are former male employees of Dow Chemical and some of their wives. The employees sustained injuries when occupationally exposed to the agricultural chemical Dibromochloropropane, manufactured by Dow under the trade name Fumazone. Dow manufactured Fu-mazone from 1975…
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