Ex-Hanford-case attorney sues state bar, 2 lawyers

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Wednesday, April 28, 2004 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M.

Ex-Hanford-case attorney sues state bar, 2 lawyers

By Christine Clarridge
Seattle Times staff reporter

A former attorney for Hanford downwinders — who claims she lost her practice, her clients and her reputation when she was yanked from the nuclear-radiation case — has sued the state bar and two lawyers she claims unfairly "hunted" her.

Nancy Malee Oreskovich claims she was the victim of a witch hunt that caused her to lose her role as a plaintiff's lawyer in the lawsuit against the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a case that after more than 13 years still has not gone to trial.

Oreskovich was an attorney for 2,000 people who lived downwind of Hanford, which emitted radiation between 1944 and 1956, when plutonium work at the government weapons plant was in its infancy.

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