The Nation - News from May 9, 1985
Citing their failure to link exposure to Agent Orange to various diseases, a federal judge in New York dismissed the suits of 281 Vietnam veterans who opted out of a class-action suit against seven manufacturers of the defoliant. “The most serious deficiency in (the veterans’) case is their failure to present credible evidence of a causal link between exposure to Agent Orange and the various diseases from which they are allegedly suffering,” U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein wrote in his decision.
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