ATLANTA (CN) — An attorney for more than 60 people who say they developed cancer and other diseases after defense contractor Lockheed Martin exposed them to toxic chemicals asked the 11th Circuit on Thursday to reevaluate a Florida federal judge’s rejection of their experts’ reports in two lawsuits.
Breast cancer, thyroid cancer, leukemia, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease are just a few of the injuries people who worked or lived near Lockheed Martin’s Orlando weapons manufacturing facility say they developed thanks to the “environmental nightmare” created by the company.
The two negligence and strict liability lawsuits in front of the 11th Circuit claim Lockheed Martin dumped contaminants — many of them powerful carcinogens — into the soil, air and groundwater around the facility. The plaintiffs say these toxins “damage virtually every human bodily system.”…