[CPEO-MEF] CHEMWEAPONS, HEALTH: Wildlife biologist's suit over Dugway Proving Ground (UT) exposure

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Army seeks to dismiss lawsuit alleging nerve gas exposure

By Dennis Romboy
Deseret News (UT)
April 19, 2012

SALT LAKE CITY - A former state wildlife biologist who says exposure  
15 years ago to sarin nerve gas at Dugway Proving Ground made her  
debilitatingly sick sued the U.S. Army in 2009.

But government lawyers contend Carolyn Bayless filed her lawsuit too  
late and want a federal judge to throw it out.

U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball will hear arguments in the case  
Thursday afternoon.

In 1997, Bayless conducted vegetation studies for the state Division  
of Wildlife Resources in Utah's West Desert, including areas next to  
Dugway Proving Ground. The Army uses the proving ground to test and  
incinerate biological and chemical weapons such a sarin, a colorless  
odorless liquid classified as a weapon of mass destruction.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865554326/Army-seeks-to-dismiss- 
lawsuit-alleging-nerve-gas-exposure.html

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