Union Carbide Corporation's Amended Responses to Plaintiff's Request for Admissions (Set One) in Brauch v. Bondex International, with Calidria Tape Joint Brochure and Verification (2002)

Union Carbide's amended responses, filed in Superior Court, Los Angeles County (Case No. BC 258492), to Klaus Brauch's 45 Requests for Admission, with general objections limiting the responses to Calidria sold to joint compound makers up to 1968. The responses address mining location, sales to Georgia-Pacific, U.S. Gypsum, National Gypsum, Proko and Kelly-Moore, safety representations, and the 1966 Mellon Institute study. Attached are Exhibit A (an October 1968 Calidria tape joint compound brochure) and a verification by Edward W. DeBor.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-21: Union Carbide's Amended Responses to Plaintiff's Request for Admissions (Set One), with general objections, responses to Nos. 1-45, and signature block dated March 25, 2002
• Page 22: Exhibit A slip sheet
• Pages 23-27: Union Carbide Calidria asbestos SG-130 and SG-210 brochure for tape joint compounds (October 1968, F-42258), with suggested formulation, product characteristics, toxicological properties and a chart
• Page 28: Union Carbide sales offices and affiliates list (brochure back page)
• Page 29: Verification by Edward W. DeBor, Assistant Manager, Vermont Records, sworn in New York County

People and organizations

From William J. Sayers (McKenna & Cuneo, L.L.P., Attorneys for Defendant Union Carbide Corporation); Farah S. Nicol (McKenna & Cuneo, L.L.P., Attorneys for Defendant Union Carbide Corporation); Susan Weisenberg Gilefsky (McKenna & Cuneo, L.L.P., Attorneys for Defendant Union Carbide Corporation) to Klaus Brauch (Propounding party, plaintiff).

• Susan Weisenberg Gilefsky (author)
• Farah S. Nicol (author)
• William J. Sayers (author)
• Bondex International, Inc (named)
• National Gypsum Co. (named)
• Union Carbide Corporation (named)
• United States Gypsum Company (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: Asbestos Joint Compound, Drywall Mud, and Texture Coatings · Calidria · California Asbestos Exposure Sites: Worksites, Industries, and Trust Coverage · Duty to Warn.

About this copy

This is document UC-5184 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 29 pages.