In Re Paoli Railroad Yard Pcb Litigation

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• holding that evidence that PCBs cause liver cancer is probative of the fact that PCBs cause other forms of cancer and so is admissible even in the absence of plaintiffs with liver cancer
• holding that evidence that PCBs cause liver cancer is probative of the fact that PCBs cause other forms of cancer and so is admissible even in the absence of plaintiffs with liver cancer
• writing that any “insistence on a certain kind of degree or background is inconsistent with our jurisprudence”
• writing that any \insistence on a certain kind of degree or background is inconsistent with our jurisprudence\
• indicating that the Rule 3(c) information contained in a letter from the appellant to the court and opposing counsel served to remove any jurisdictional impediment created by a prior, possibly defective, notice of appeal
• requiring that the “increased risk [of disease] make[] periodic diagnostic medical examinations reasonably necessary” and that “Monitoring and testing procedures exist which make the early detection and treatment of the disease possible and beneficial”

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