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2008년 9월 25일

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Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle

Ivory Coast workers can't sue firms in U.S.

Ivory Coast plantation workers who claim they were sterilized by a U.S.-made pesticide can't sue the manufacturers and distributors of the chemical in the United States because they can't show the companies intended to harm them, a federal appeals court ruled…. In a lawsuit filed in a Los Angeles federal court, nearly 700 workers in the West African nation accused the companies of genocide and crimes against humanity for allegedly marketing DBCP abroad after the pesticide…was outlawed in the United States…. The defendants included Dow Chemical and Shell Oil, which made DBCP, and Dole Foods….