Erin Brockovich and attorneys filed 25 claims against the city's school district Monday, alleging that former students of Beverly Hills High School got cancer from being exposed to toxic fumes emitted from an on-campus oil field.
Brockovich, who inspired a movie named after her about the landmark water pollution case that won the residents of a California desert town $333 million, said up to 300 claims could eventually be filed on behalf of students who attended the school between 1975 and 1997 and have been treated for Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's or thyroid cancer.
SFGate April 28, 2003
