Acuna v. Brown & Root Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that “Congress intended to create an exclusive federal cause 11 Case: 18-15104 Date Filed: 08/31/2020 Page: 12 of 17 of action for torts arising out of nuclear incidents”
• action involved approximately 1,600 plaintiffs suing over 100 defendants for injuries alleged to have occurred over four decades
• claims of more than one thousand plaintiffs who either worked in uranium mines or processing plants and were exposed to radiation or uranium dust, or were exposed through contact with those workers or through environmental factors like wind and groundwater
• discussing use of Lone Pine orders in mass tort litigation
• discussing use of Lone Pine orders in mass tort litigation
• discussing use of Lone Pine orders in mass tort litigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).