DuPont to Appeal Verdict
DuPont has asked to Mississippi Supreme Court to throw out a $14 million verdict awarded to Glen Strong, an oyster fisherman who says that chemicals from a Gulf Coast plant caused his multiple myeloma. DuPont's DeLisle plant is located about five miles from Strong's Bay St. Louis home. Strong's lawyers claimed that Strong's blood cancer was caused by dioxins that entered Strong's body through the air and by eating oysters from St. Louis Bay. DuPont called no witnesses in its defense, depending on the testimony of Strong's doctor who said that there was no way to determine the root cause of Strong's cancer.
In its appeal, DuPont asked if the lower court had been fair in judging the company based on the plaintiff's "reliance on junk science" and a "failure to offer competent proof" of an actual cause of Strong's cancer. DuPont also said that they were unfairly prevented from calling experts to testify; DuPont says these experts could have shown that the DeLisle plant was not the cause of Strong's cancer. The DeLisle plant makes titanium oxide, a pigment used in paint, plastics and toothpaste.
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