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SILKWOOD v. KERR-McGEE CORP.

Civ. A. No. 76-0888-Theis.

485 F.Supp. 566 (1979)

Bill M. SILKWOOD, Administrator of the Estate of Karen G. Silkwood, deceased, Plaintiff, v. KERR-McGEE CORPORATION et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Oklahoma.

August 18, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel P. Sheehan, Arthur R. Angel, Jim Ikard, Oklahoma City, Okl., G. L. Spence, Spence, Moriarity & Schuster, Jackson Hole, Wyo., for plaintiff.

William G. Paul, L. E. Stringer, John J. Griffin, Jr., Crowe, Dunlevy, Thweatt, Swinford, Johnson & Burdick, Oklahoma City, Okl., and Elliott C. Fenton, Larry D. Ottaway, Fenton, Fenton, Smith, Reneau & Moon, Oklahoma City, Okl., Glenn W. McGee, C. Lee Cook, Jr., Chadwell, Kayser, Ruggles, McGee & Hastings, Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

OPINION AND ORDER OVERRULING DEFENDANTS' POST-TRIAL MOTIONS

THEIS, Chief Judge.

This is a personal injury action for damages caused through exposure to radiation suffered by plaintiff's decedent as a consequence of plutonium escaping a nuclear fuel processing plant operated by defendants. A lengthy jury trial culminated May 18, 1979, in a jury's answers to interrogatories finding actual damages of $505,000.00 and punitive damages of $10,000,000.00. The jury...

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