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LOS ANGELES: Erin Brockovich, the environmental activist who inspired the film of the same name that won Julia Roberts an Oscar in 2001, has filed claims against a Beverly Hills school over claims that toxins on campus gave students and staff cancer. "Two hundred and eighty alumni and teachers are involved. They want answers, and so do we," she told a press conference on Monday as she announced the first list of 25 plaintiffs that will form part of a class-action suit. Brockovich and lawyer Ed Masry in 1996 forced the utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric, to pay $333 million to the residents of tiny Hinkley, California, to settle a water contamination suit. — AFP

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