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06-08-2009, 11:16 AM
Court refuses to hear suit over Camp Lejeune water
Jun 8 10:00 AM US/EasternWASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court refused Monday hear a Marine's lawsuit blaming the government's dumping of toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina for his son's illnesses. The high court declined to hear an appeal by Donal McLean Snyder Jr. of the lower courts' dismissal of his lawsuit.
Snyder lived at Camp Lejeune as a young 1st lieutenant the 1970s, and said the dumping of trichloroethylene, an ingredient in cleaning solvents, into the ground polluted the water.
Snyder said his son was born in 1971 with a congenital heart defect because his pregnant wife drank the water at Camp Lejeune. Donal McLean Snyder III is facing a second open heart surgery, court papers say.
The lower courts said trichloroethylene was not regulated as a dangerous substance until the late 1970s. Because of that, the government cannot be faulted for the dumping at Camp Lejeune while Snyder's wife was living there and pregnant with their son.
The case is Snyder v. United States, 08-894.Article at http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98MIF0G0&show_article=1&catnum=0
Jun 8 10:00 AM US/EasternWASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court refused Monday hear a Marine's lawsuit blaming the government's dumping of toxic chemicals at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina for his son's illnesses. The high court declined to hear an appeal by Donal McLean Snyder Jr. of the lower courts' dismissal of his lawsuit.
Snyder lived at Camp Lejeune as a young 1st lieutenant the 1970s, and said the dumping of trichloroethylene, an ingredient in cleaning solvents, into the ground polluted the water.
Snyder said his son was born in 1971 with a congenital heart defect because his pregnant wife drank the water at Camp Lejeune. Donal McLean Snyder III is facing a second open heart surgery, court papers say.
The lower courts said trichloroethylene was not regulated as a dangerous substance until the late 1970s. Because of that, the government cannot be faulted for the dumping at Camp Lejeune while Snyder's wife was living there and pregnant with their son.
The case is Snyder v. United States, 08-894.Article at http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98MIF0G0&show_article=1&catnum=0