Dow Chemical Company attempted to subpoena raw data underlying University of Wisconsin researchers’ dioxin toxicity studies prior to peer reviewed publication of the results of their on-going studies with rhesus monkeys. District Court Judge Barbara Crabbe in Madison, Wisconsin agreed with researchers quashed the  Subpoenas on motion by Yannacone as attorney for the Vietnam combat veterans for whom the data was critical in establishing causation between their myriad of diseases and theitr exposure to dioxin contaminated herbicides during the war in Southeast Asia.  The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed in the decision below reported at 672 F. 2d 1262 (7th Cir. 1982)

Allen, the Seventh Circuit decision