About the Library

The AsbestosClaims.Law Library is run by the Law Offices of Justinian C. Lane, Esq. – PLLC, a law firm that represents people harmed by asbestos. It publishes the asbestos industry's own papers, trial exhibits, court decisions, medical studies, magazines, catalogs and advertisements, so that anyone can read what the companies knew and when. This page explains how to cite what you find here, what we keep off the site to protect people's privacy, and how to ask us to remove or correct something.

Citing the Library

Every document the Library hosts has a permanent number, its ACL Doc number, and a short link that never changes: ACL Doc 10482 is always at asbestosclaims.law/library/10482, even if the page's title or address changes. The number is printed in the footer of every page of the PDF, so a printout can still be traced back to us.

Each Library page ends with a suggested citation you can copy. For a document, it gives the title, date, collection and any production or exhibit numbers, then the ACL Doc number and short link. For a medical study or a court decision, it gives the original first (the journal or the court reporter), then our summary page. Please cite the original for a study or a decision: our summaries explain them in plain English but don't replace them.

Our summaries and notes are our own reading of a document. Quote the document itself, not our summary of it.

What we leave out to protect privacy

Many of these papers name ordinary workers, and some describe their health. We publish what shows how the companies acted, not private details about the people they employed. We hold back, and keep out of search:

• medical records, X-ray results and exam lists that name individual workers;
• personnel files;
• Social Security numbers, and the home addresses and phone numbers of private people.

When only part of a document is private, such as a mailing label on a company magazine, we black out that part in the copy we publish. When most of it is private, we keep the whole document off the site. Held material gets no page, no file and no search text. People who appear in the documents only in their working roles, such as executives, managers, doctors and researchers, get pages of their own only when we've checked that the record is about them.

Asking us to remove or correct something

Write to us if you find any of these:

• your own private information, or a family member's, in a document or on a page;
• something we've said about a person or a company that's wrong;
• a document whose copyright you hold, and which you believe we shouldn't host.

Email [email protected], or write to 2704 Meister Place, Round Rock, TX 78664. Tell us the page's address or the ACL Doc number, what the problem is, and how we can reach you. We may need to confirm who you are before we act, so that no one can remove information about someone else.

We read every request and reply to it. While we look into a privacy request, we can take the page or file down. If we agree, we black out the private part, correct the page or remove it, and we take the text out of the site search too. If we don't agree, we'll tell you why.

Copyright and fair use

Each document's page says why we're able to publish it: it's in the public domain, the rights have been cleared, or we publish it under fair use for research, historical study, or health and safety. When we can't publish a work, as with most journal articles, we describe it and link to the publisher or PubMed instead of hosting it. If you hold the rights to something we host, write to us at the address above.

Who runs the Library

The Library belongs to a law firm, and we say so throughout the site. The documents are published for research and public understanding. Nothing in the Library is legal advice, and reading it doesn't make you our client.