Nguyen Thu Anh feeds her son Pham The Kien at the Tu Du Hospital May 2, 2005 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He has been deformed since birth from what may be the effects of the defoliant Agent Orange used in the Vietnam War. On March 10 a U.S. Federal Court in Brooklyn, New York dismissed a law suit on behalf of millions of Vietnamese against the U.S. for its use of the toxic defoliant during the Vietnam War, which contains dioxin. In 1984, seven American chemical companies paid $180 million to settle a suit by U.S veterans affected by Agent Orange. Vietnam pledges to pursue the lawsuit and is taking the case to a US Court of Appeals in June.