Bananas! [DVD]

Title:

Bananas! [DVD]

Summary:

Los Angeles lawyer, Juan "Accidentes" Dominguez, is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility.

Year Published:

2009-2010

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Note:

"In 2007, Nicaraguan plantation workers, represented by Los Angeles-based personal injury lawyer Juan Dominguez, sued Dole and Dow Chemical Company, claiming the use of illegal pesticides like Nemagon (now banned) had made them sterile... Swedish director Fredrik Gertten made a documentary film about Dominguez and the alleged banana workers. The movie Bananas!* premiered in the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival. Because Dole had serious concerns on what the film might reveal to the public, it urged festival officials to "immediately cease and desist" their sponsorship of the film... Although the film was screened with a disclaimer from the festival, Gertten was subsequently sued for defamation by Dole.The lawsuit was later dropped."--Wikipedia, viewed Oct. 21, 2010.

Originally produced as documentary in 2009.

Title from container.

Corporate Subject:

Dole Food Company -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Dow Chemical Company -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Subject:

Class actions (Civil procedure) -- California -- Los Angeles.

Dibromochloropropane -- Environmental aspects -- Nicaragua.

Liability for hazardous substances pollution damages -- Nicaragua.

Pesticides -- Health aspects -- Nicaragua.

Tort liability of corporations -- United States.

Genre: