Dole Food Co. Inc. must pay nearly $200,000 in attorney fees and costs to two Swedish filmmakers, a judge in Los Angeles ordered after dismissing the company’s defamation lawsuit over a documentary depicting the alleged plight of banana plantation workers.
Dole sued last year over the film Bananas!, which chronicles a lawsuit in which six Nicaraguan banana workers obtained $5.8 million in damages from the company in 2007. The workers alleged that the company’s use of the pesticide dibromochloropropane, or DBCP, on banana farms during the 1970s and 1980s left them sterile.
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