Civil Action Report

In 1999 Jerome Facher, the lead defense attorney for Beatrice Foods, wrote a law review article about his own experience of being involved with this case. In that article, Facher describes Skinner's actual ruling on admitting the plaintiff's experts to testify: The ruling involved a highly suspect opinion attempting to establish the time period when TCE, found on the fifteen acres [of heavily contaminated vacant land] in 1985, had first been introduced at that site.

Because of the substantial time required for the groundwater to have reached the wells before they closed in May 1979 and for suf..........