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A Brooklyn prep school was briefly shut down yesterday and eight students were hospitalized after a noxious gas was released into one of the classrooms that later turned out to be Axe body spray.
— Read more at 'Noxious Odor' That Shut Down School Turns Out to Be Axe Body Spray at Gawker. Hat tip to Kevin!
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“DJFS offered to request staff not to wear Japanese Cherry Blossom, an accommodation specifically requested by plaintiff initially, and plaintiff failed to show that any other fragrance significantly affected her ability to breathe,” the court’s ruling said.
— Remember the Japanese Cherry Blossom lawsuit? The U.S. District Court ruled against the plaintiff, but after an appeal, she might get a payout anyway. Read more at $20K deal for worker in perfume case at the Springfield News-Sun.
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Pamela Core, an employee for the county department, has filed a complaint in Champaign County Common Pleas Court against two co-workers. Core is accusing the women of intentionally wearing a perfume called Japanese Cherry Blossom, despite knowing that the fragrance caused an allergic reaction that once required Core to visit the emergency room.
— From Woman says perfume sent her to hospital, sues co-workers at the Dayton Daily News. It's not clear why she is suing her co-workers and not her employer (see the recent case in Detroit). In other news, an Indiana mom is suing for a fragrance ban at her asthmatic son's school.
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City employees with a strong aroma of perfume, cologne or any scented products will soon be in for a warning.
Detroit officials have plans to place placards in three city buildings detailing scented products to avoid due to a settlement in a widely publicized federal lawsuit filed by a city planner in 2008 and settled last month.
The employee, Susan McBride, was awarded $100,000 in the federal case because of her breathing sensitivity to chemical products -- but she has yet to receive her money.
— From Detroit city employees discouraged from wearing strong scents at the Detroit News.
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A city of Detroit planner can proceed with her lawsuit alleging a co-worker's perfume made it difficult for her to breathe and impossible to do her job, a federal judge has ruled.
In an opinion released late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lawrence P. Zatkoff rejected the city's attempt to have Susan McBride's lawsuit, filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act, dismissed.
McBride "has produced evidence that her breathing is significantly restricted" by a co-worker's perfume, and she has a potential claim, Zatkoff ruled.
— Read the rest at Judge says perfume lawsuit can proceed at The Detroit News. Many thanks to Christina for the tip! We first heard about this lawsuit last year, and the problem wasn't just perfume but also a plug-in room deodorizer.
See also: The Detroit Tresor lawsuit.