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BEGAY v. KERR-McGEE CORP.

No. Civ. 79-1016 Phx. WPC.

499 F.Supp. 1325 (1980)

Esther Lee BEGAY et al., Plaintiffs, v. KERR-McGEE CORPORATION et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Arizona.

May 13, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Mahoney, Jr., of Mahoney & Rood, Phoenix, Ariz., Stewart L. Udall, Phoenix, Ariz., Frank J. Barry, Tucson, Ariz., for plaintiffs.

Steven C. Lester, of Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, Phoenix, Ariz., Ralph Mahowald, of O'Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Westover & Killingsworth, Robert K. Park, John R. Greer, Phoenix, Ariz., for defendants Kerr-McGee Corp. and Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Inc.

Newman R. Porter, Alvin H. Shrago, of Evans, Kitchel & Jenckes, Phoenix, Ariz., for Amax, Inc., Climax Uranium Co. and Climax Molybdenum Co.

Douglas L. Irish, of Lewis & Roca, Phoenix, Ariz., for Foote Mineral Co. and Vanadium Corp. of America.

James P. Linn, Raymond E. Tompkins, William R. Burkett, B. J. Zimmerman, Richard F. Campbell, Oklahoma City, Okl., for Kerr-McGee Corp.

Rosemary Collyer, Raymond J. Turner, of Dawson, Nagel, Sherman & Howard, Denver, Colo., for Foote Mineral Co. and its related parties defendant.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

COPPLE, District Judge.

Jurisdiction in this action is based on diversity of citizenship. Plaintiffs and plaintiffs' decedents were Navajo Indians employed at the defendants' uranium mining operations located on the Navajo Indian Reservation. In their complaint, plaintiffs allege that during the course of this employment, they or their decedents were exposed to substantial amounts of radiation causing cancer, pulmonary impairments, and...

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