Subject:  More on the $800 million cell phone lawsuit (Kerekes)..
Date:     Wed, 09 Aug 2000 102442 -0500
From:     Roy Beavers 
To:       Roy Beavers 
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............From EMF-L..........  (Thanks Marry Jo!)..........guru's sign-off is
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"Kerekes, Merry Jo" wrote:

> Brain cancer victim sues cell-phone providers
> From...
>   http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=13175
>
>
> August 8, 2000
> Web posted at: 10:27 a.m. EDT (1427 GMT)
>
> by Jennifer Disabatino
>
> (IDG) -- A Maryland neurologist filed an $800 million lawsuit this week
> against several wireless providers and two umbrella organizations claiming
> that radiation from his cell phone is responsible for his malignant brain
> tumor.
>
> According to the lawsuit, Dr. Christopher Newman, 41, was diagnosed with
> brain cancer in 1998 and can no longer work as a result of his disease.
>
> His attorney, Joanne Suder in Baltimore, wasn't immediately available for
> comment. However, her office is keeping personal information about Newman
> private to protect her client.
>
> The suit was filed Tuesday in Baltimore City Circuit Court, and claims that
> years of use of wireless handheld telephones caused Newman's cancer.
>
> Named as defendants in the suit are Motorola Inc., Verizon Communications
> Corp., Bell Atlantic Corp., Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems, Southwestern Bell
> Mobile Systems, Washington/Baltimore Cellular, SBC Communications INC., the
> Cellular Telecommunication Industry Association (CTIA) and the
> Telecommunication Industry Association. The suit seeks $100 million in
> compensatory damages and $700 million in punitive damages.
>
> "Groundless and Unsubstantiated"
> Norman Sandler, Motorola's director of global strategic issues, said he's
> aware of the lawsuit, but hasn't been officially notified.
>
> "The issues aren't new, the claim isn't new," Sandler said. "The assertion
> at the core of this is groundless and unsubstantiated by the science."
>
> There have been a "handful" of similar lawsuits before this, he said, but
> none would support Newman's claims.
>
> "One by one they have slowly but surely been dismissed by the courts or
> withdrawn by the plaintiffs," Sandler said, and none of the suits was
> settled out of court.
>
> "It is an area that has been heavily researched for more than 50 years," he
> said, and the newer uses of radio frequency radiation, like wireless
> communications, have undergone heavy scrutiny in the past 10 years.
>
> "The fundamental scientific judgments certainly haven't changed."
>
> Some evidence of risk
> The lawsuit came one day after Dr. George Carlo, a public health researcher,
> released a summary of research in which he raised questions about the safety
> of cell phone use.
>
> Carlo's research found radio frequency radiation from wireless phone
> antennae "appears to cause genetic damage in human blood," while another
> case study uncovered a "statistically significant increase" in
> neuro-epithelial brain tumors among cell phone users.
>
> Carlo had been hired by the CTIA to oversee research on the effects of
> cellular telephone radiation, at a cost of $27 million. The CTIA has since
> disavowed Carlo and his conclusions, and at least one of his researchers has
> publicly disagreed with Carlo's conclusions.
>
> Dr. Henry Lai, a researcher in the Bioelectromagnetics Research Laboratory
> at the University of Washington in Seattle, said there is preliminary
> evidence that cell phone radiation has an effect on animal cells, but the
> evidence is far from conclusive.
>
> "Biological changes do not always become health hazards to humans. Of course
> there's a question there." Lai said, but without having done studies on
> humans, "I don't know."
>
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.............The company official talks as if these cases are so rare.....  I want the
industry to explain the
Mike Synar and Lee Atwater cases.......!!!  Not so rare at all......

Cheerio.......

Roy Beavers (EMFguru)
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       than to curse the darkness.....

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