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- Walter Wagner: A nuclear safety officerMSNBC Cosmic Log: Doomsday Fears Spark Lawsuit (March 27, 2008)
- Luis Sancho: A science writerFOX News: 'Doomsday Machine' Lawsuit Tossed Out by Judge (September 29, 2008)
- Filed in Hawaii U.S. District CourtFOX News: 'Doomsday Machine' Lawsuit Tossed Out by Judge (September 29, 2008)
- LHC considered safe by the vast majority of scientists
- LHC was shut down in September 2008 due to an equipment malfunctionMSNBC: Supercollider shut down until spring (September 23, 2008)
- Wagner raised similar concerns about a smaller New York particle collider, the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider, in 2000MSNBC: Big Bang machine gets down to work (June 14, 2000)
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Two plaintiffs, Walter Wagner and Luis Sancho, filed a doomsday machine lawsuit against CERN in an attempt to stop the Large Hadron Collider from operating. The lawsuit was dismissed on September 28, 2008. The judge ruled that the court had no jurisdiction over the LHC because it was run by CERN and operated in Geneva, Switzerland. Judge Helen Gilmor did not comment on the claims alleged in the lawsuit.FOX News: 'Doomsday Machine' Lawsuit Tossed Out by Judge (September 29, 2008) MSNBC Cosmic Log: Doomsday Fears Spark Lawsuit (March 27, 2008) The scientific consensus of physicists and other scientists is that the machine is safe and does not pose a threat to the world or the universe, as the plaintiffs had claimed.CNN.com: Some fear debut of powerful atom-smasher (June 30, 2008)
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Doomsday Machine Lawsuit Questions
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