Our view: Cancer cases deserve full public trials
We might never know what caused a cluster of brain cancers in and around McCullom Lake.
But the victims and their surviving family members deserve to present all of their evidence in a court of law.
In 2010, a Pennsylvania judge prematurely dismissed the first of 33 lawsuits against a Ringwood chemical manufacturer. The lawsuits claim that years of air and groundwater exposure to vinyl chloride and other volatile organic compounds caused the plaintiffs’ brain and pituitary tumors.
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