My deposition as a Bellwether Plaintiff for the Hanford Downwinders Litigation took place August 23, on an uncomfortably hot day in Seattle. Mine was the fifth in a series of depositions of “test case plaintiffs,” all of us chosen randomly through lottery. At this point
Litigation
Hanford Bellweather Plaintiff II
Who are the “Hanford Downwinders”? The most accurate definition of “Hanford Downwinder” includes anyone who lived within the vast multi-state region downwind or downriver of the federal Hanford facility, located in south central Washington State, during the decades in which Hanford produced plutonium for nuclear weapons. Airborne radioactive
Hanford Litigation Plaintiff: I
May 1, 2013 This is the first in a series of posts about the Hanford litigation. I am a plaintiff in that litigation. In fact, I have been a plaintiff now for over twenty years in one of the slowest moving legal actions on record. I have just been chosen
My Comments on the Hanford Litigation National Law Review Analysis
In 2011, the National Law Review ran an insightful piece on the Hanford Litigation. My comment on the article is reprinted here: I am very appreciative of this insightful analysis by Ms Jenna Greene of the chronic Hanford litigation, and the impact of Price Anderson upon the the litigation. I was born in 1950 in… Read More »