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HELENA, Mont. — A trial begins Monday against Warren Buffett’s
and its corporate predecessors stored asbestos-laden vermiculite in a large rail yard in town before shipping it to plants where it was heated to expand it for use as insulation. The railroad failed to contain the dust from the vermiculite, allowing it — and the asbestos it contained — to be blown around town without warning residents about its dangers, the lawsuit states.
. U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris is overseeing the trial and has said he expects it to last at least two weeks. Morris has already ruled that
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