A federal district court May 12 awarded nearly $17 million to plaintiffs in a lawsuit over damage to crops in southern Idaho by the DuPont herbicide Oust® that had drifted from federal land (Adams v. United States).
Judge Lynn Winmill of the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho ordered the government to pay nearly $6.7 million of the judgment and DuPont to pay slightly more than $10 million to four parties that he termed “bellwether” plaintiffs in the case.
The jury reached its verdict on Aug. 24, 2009, allocating 60 percent of the responsibility for the ...
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