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... Many other scientists who have unraveled the etiology of cancer and various chronic illnesses and revealed the long lag times between exposure to a toxin and the onset of disease are responsible, far more than any lawyer, for the law's effective abandonment of statutes of limitation for damage actions and the "imminent harm" prerequisites for injunctions. Norman Rasmussen has been another major accessory before the fact in the creation of new tort law.
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  • tort law
  • power plant
  • damage actions
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