A judge in Texas dismissed one of...
A judge in Texas dismissed one of the largest remaining civil cases in a U.S. court stemming from the 1984 industrial accident at a Union Carbide chemical plant in Bhopal, India. State District Judge Gary Sanderson dismissed a $50-million suit by attorneys representing Indian victims of the December, 1984, disaster, in which methyl isocyanate gas leaked from a Union Carbide pesticide plant, killing 2,000 people and injuring 200,000. Houston lawyer Benton Musslewhite and attorney Rob Hager of Washington filed the suit in January, 1985, in Sanderson’s court against the Danbury, Conn.-based firm.
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