JUDGE DISMISSES LAWSUIT OVER AGENT ORANGE.(News) From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) | Date: March 11, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 The Cincinnati Post. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of the Dialog Corporation by Gale Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Tini Tran Associated Press

HANOI, Vietnam -- A Vietnamese group expressed anger today over a U.S. judge's dismissal of a historic class-action lawsuit claiming American chemical companies had committed war crimes by making the defoliant Agent Orange during the Vietnam War.

U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein threw out the case in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Thursday, saying he did not agree that Agent Orange and similar herbicides should be considered poisons...

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