UM Grace Case

MISSOULA (May 18, 2009) –  Not guilty.
To Danielle Bundrock, a University of Montana senior, the verdicts sounded a lot like, “No justice.”
The pain at the center of the W.R Grace trial is fresh for her. Her step-grandpa died on Easter in Libby from lung cancer due to asbestos exposure. Another 13 members of her family [...]

LIBBY (May 10, 2009) — The environmental criminal inquiry into the most sprawling industrial disaster in U.S. history ended in the failed prosecution of a company charged with poisoning a small Montana town. Some residents of the town say no judge’s gavel can close their case, that death may be the only end to their [...]

Technical difficulties that took the Grace Case Project offline on Friday night have been resolved. Check back for reaction stories from the courthouse on Friday, the university campus and Libby.
In the long run the plan is to maintain this site as an archive of the trial.

This placeholder post will be retained in order to keep the comments linked to it. This is the same blog as before the server crash, with a slightly different look and a new server.