Judges and Judiciary
Mar. 12, 2008
Judge Tosses $2.5 Million Punitives
LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge has dismissed the $2.5 million punitive damages a jury awarded to five Nicaraguan farmworkers who claimed a pesticide from a Dole banana farm caused their sterility and ordered a new trial for a sixth man, potentially complicating thousands of similar claims against the fruit company.
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LOS ANGELES - A Superior Court judge has dismissed the $2.5 million punitive damages a jury awarded to five Nicaraguan farmworkers who claimed a pesticide from a Dole banana farm caused their sterility and ordered a new trial for a sixth man, potentially complicating thousands of similar claims against the fruit company.
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