[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Air Force ruled again not responsible for Myrtle Beach (SC) plume

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Federal judges question validity of AVX appeal in Myrtle Beach  
contamination case

By David Wren
Myrtle Beach Sun News
October 25, 2012

A panel of federal appeals court judges indicated this week they have  
no intention of overturning a lower court's ruling and granting  
electronics components manufacturer AVX Corp. a new trial in a  
groundwater contamination case here.

AVX claims U.S. District Court Judge Terry Wooten made a legal error  
in a trial last year in Florence when he allowed Dennis O'Connell to  
testify as an expert witness about trichloroethylene, or TCE,  
contamination in groundwater at and near the company's 17th Avenue  
South facility.

Kevin Dunlap, a Spartanburg lawyer representing AVX, told the appeals  
court this week that O'Connell - who was a witness for the U.S.  
government - is a sediments expert and doesn't have enough experience  
with TCE and groundwater to qualify as an expert in this case.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2012/10/25/3135126/federal-judges- 
question-validity.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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