California Courts of Appeal
Mar. 11, 2014
Dole Food's victory against Nicaraguan farmworkers affirmed
Six Nicaraguan men who claimed they became sterilized by a pesticide while working on a banana farm run by Dole Food Company Inc. have lost their bid to revive a multimillion dollar jury verdict.
By Emily Green
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Six Nicaraguan men who claimed they became sterilized by a pesticide while working on a banana farm run by Dole Food Company Inc. have lost their bid to revive a multimillion dollar jury verdict.
In 2007, a Los Angeles jury awarded approximated $3.3 million in compensatory damages to the men, who were among thousands of purported banana workers to sue the massive produce company for using a pesticide with links to sterilizat...
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