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No damages in lead paint case

March 6, 2006 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 84, Issue 10

A judge in Rhode Island has ruled that three companies that manufactured lead paint won't face punitive damages because the paint was legal at the time that they made it. A jury earlier found the companies-Sherwin-Williams, NL Industries, and Lyondell Chemical's Millennium unit-guilty of creating a public nuisance for selling the paint (C&EN, Feb. 27, page 21). The judge has yet to decide what the companies must do to clean up lead paint in the state.

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