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Ground Zero Lawsuits Are to Begin in 2010

December 11, 2008

After years of wrangling, lawyers for New York City and for the thousands of ground zero workers suing the city have agreed to begin trials in the spring of 2010. The lawsuits claim that workers suffered illnesses as a result of their exposure to dust at the site, and most of the first cases to be heard will involve people with the most severe health claims.

 

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan is expected to issue an order approving a case management plan that he proposed and that was agreed to after modifications. After a hearing on Wednesday, the lawyers said they were moving forward with 50 to 60 cases.

 

“The people who need relief the most will be at the front of the line, where they should be,” said Paul J. Napoli, who represents more than 9,000 of the workers.

Nearly 10,000 firefighters, police officers, construction workers and others have sued the city and its contractors, saying they suffered respiratory and other illnesses because they were not given breathing masks during the nine-month rescue and recovery operation after the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.

 

Read Article: New York Times

 

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