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Article: Defining the boundaries of "personal injury": Rainer v. Union Carbide Corp.
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- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2006 Stanford Law School. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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INTRODUCTION
I. RAINER'S FACTUAL BACKGROUND
II. RELEVANT PRECEDENT: DEFINING SUBCELLULAR INJURY
III. THE RAINER OPINION: REJECTING ASYMPTOMATIC DNA INJURY AS AN
ADEQUATE CAUSE OF ACTION
IV. THE POST-RAINER WORLD: EVALUATING THE EFFECTS OF THE SIXTH
CIRCUIT'S OPINION
CONCLUSION
INTRODUCTION
For over fifty years, workers at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PGDP) in western Kentucky were exposed to dangerous amounts of toxic radiation--largely without their knowledge. Since the news of the exposure exploded onto the national press in the late 1990s, (1) over six thousand compensation claims have been filed with the Department of Labor, ...
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