Article: Exxon's attorney: Contract technicians in Pikesville weren't trained

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 ...

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