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Article: Exxon's attorney: Contract technicians in Pikesville weren't trained
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- The Daily Record (Baltimore)
- Article date:
- February 27, 2009
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A Pikesville petroleum service company and jury instructions were
the focus of the penultimate day of closing arguments Thursday in
Jacksonville residents' billion-dollar lawsuit against ExxonMobil
Corp. stemming from a 25,000-plus-gallon gasoline leak.
James F. Sanders, Exxon's lead counsel, repeated his client's
claim that the leak went undetected for 37 days because Alger
Electric Inc. technicians, unfamiliar with the station's leak
detection system, improperly reset it after the detector alarmed
Jan. 13, 2006.
"There's no way Exxon could have known these guys who went out
there on the 13th weren't trained in what they were doing," Sanders
said during the conclusion of his closing ...