United States Second Circuit

Plaintiff's claim that her husband's death was caused by exposure to toxic emissions aboard vessels owned by defendant is dismissed where she failed to satisfy her burden of establishing a causal link between the vessels' alleged toxic emissions and her husband's death.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/11/2004
• Published 08/11/2004

Judges

• SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judge., Before:  JACOBS and SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Kenneth Heller, Kenneth Heller P.C., New York, New York, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert J. Kelly, Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker, LLP, Newark, NJ, (James M. Hazen, Hill, Betts & Nash LLP, New York, New York, of counsel), for Defendants-Appellees.