Fukushima

The Ninth Circuit <strong><a href="http://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Fukushima-9CA.pdf">dismissed an appeal</a></strong> Tuesday finding it lacks jurisdiction to consider the case of hundreds of U.S. sailors who were exposed to radiation while on a humanitarian mission following the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011.

PASADENA, Calif. – The Ninth Circuit dismissed an appeal Tuesday finding it lacks jurisdiction to consider the case of hundreds of U.S. sailors who were exposed to radiation while on a humanitarian mission following the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Fukushima, Japan, in 2011.

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