TAYLOR v. MONSANTO CO.

No. 97-2469.

150 F.3d 806 (1998)

Johnnie B. TAYLOR, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MONSANTO CO., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 5, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David S. McCrea (argued), McCrea & McCrea, Bloomington, IN, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Michael R. Fruehwald and Michael Rosiello (argued), Barnes & Thornburg, Indianapolis, IN, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before EASTERBROOK, DIANE P. WOOD, and EVANS, Circuit Judges.


DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge.

At least to the outside observer, some cases appear to be unevenly balanced clashes between a titan of industry and a hapless individual. This case is not one of them. Instead, the central question before us is whether the Monsanto Company, one of the country's largest manufacturers of chemicals, lulled the Westinghouse Electric Company, a major user of those chemicals, into the erroneous view that polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were...

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