Asbestos Cases A–Z: G

182 decisions whose name begins with G.

• Graves v. Riverwood International Corp. (Louisiana Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, 2007). The Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court's denial of Olin Corporation's motions for JNOV and new trial, leaving the plaintiffs' verdict in place (general damages cut by the trial court from $4,500,000 to $3,000,000).
• Gray v. BNSF Railway Company (U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas, 2023). The court denied BNSF Railway's motion for summary judgment, holding that neither the 2004 nor the 2017 release barred Columbus Gray's FELA claim for bladder cancer.
• Green v. CertainTEED Corporation (California Court of Appeal, 1st Appellate District, 3rd Division, 2015). The Court of Appeal affirmed the summary judgments for CertainTeed, Bucyrus, Terex and Shell, ruling that Texas causation law applied and the Greens did not meet it, and it upheld the denial of new trial motions against the Greens.
• Green v. General Dynamics Corp. (Connecticut Supreme Court, 1997). The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed the Appellate Court, which had denied the widow's claim, and remanded so the commissioner could calculate her weekly death benefits under § 31-310c; the widow, Celestina Green, won against Electric Boat and its insurers.
• Green v. General Dynamics Corp. (Connecticut Appellate Court, 1996). The Appellate Court reversed the compensation review board's decision affirming dependent's death benefits for the widow, Celestina Green, and remanded with direction to deny her claim, so General Dynamics/Electric Boat and its insurers won.
• Greenberg v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County (California Court of Appeal, 2nd Appellate District, 4th Division, 2015). The Court of Appeal granted the Greenbergs' writ petition and directed the trial court to vacate its summary judgment for Hennessy Industries and enter an order denying summary judgment and summary adjudication.
• Greenburg v. Hiner (U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, 2005). The court granted the Owens Corning officers' and directors' motion to dismiss the investors' securities fraud class action as time-barred, and denied the investors' motion to modify the discovery stay as moot.
• Greene v. Amchem Prods., Inc. (New York Supreme Court, 2021). The court denied Columbia Boiler's motion for summary judgment and its request for a Frye hearing, so the plaintiffs' claims against Columbia Boiler continue.
• Greene v. CSX Transp., Inc. (Alabama Supreme Court, 2002). The Alabama Supreme Court affirmed summary judgment for CSX Transportation, holding the FELA personal-injury survival claims of the personal representatives of two deceased railroad employees were time-barred.
• Greenleaf v. Garlock, Inc. (U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1999). The Third Circuit reversed in part and affirmed in part: it held that the state-court damages verdict barred relitigation of damages, so judgment for the Greenleafs against Garlock and Owens Corning must be entered at the state amount. It also ordered a new trial on Garlock's and Owens Corning's crossclaims against the non-appearing defendants.
• Greer v. Ace Hardware Corporation (Oregon Court of Appeals, 2013). The Oregon Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for Georgia-Pacific, Backstrom Builders Center and The Miller Lumber Co. against the estate of Russell Greer, because the record had no evidence that he used an asbestos-containing product made or supplied by them.
• Gref v. American International Industries (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 2025). The court adopted the magistrate judge's report, granted plaintiff Gref's Rule 41(a)(2) motion to dismiss his claims against American International Industries with prejudice, and denied AII's request for fees and costs.
• Gref v. American International Industries (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 2024). The court denied the defendants' joint motion to preclude plaintiff Gref's supplemental expert disclosures, finding the late disclosures unjustified but harmless, and said Dr. Moline's deposition could be reopened.
• Gref v. American International Industries (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 2024). The court said it would decide the motion to preclude Plaintiff's supplemental expert disclosures before ruling on Colgate-Palmolive's request for more time to depose Dr. Moline, and it terminated the request for more time (ECF No. 376) for the time being.
• Gref v. American International Industries (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 2024). The magistrate judge denied plaintiff Gref's motion for sanctions against defendant American International Industries, finding no bad faith in its pursuit of discovery about the identities of the 33 subjects in Dr. Moline's article.
• Gregg v. VJ Auto Parts Co. (Pennsylvania Superior Court, 2009). On remand from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the Superior Court affirmed summary judgment for V-J Auto Parts and denied the estate's motion to amend the complaint.
• Gregg v. VJ Auto Parts Company (Pennsylvania Supreme Court, Eastern District, 2007). The Pennsylvania Supreme Court vacated the Superior Court's order, which had reversed summary judgment for V-J Auto Parts, held that the trial court did not err in applying the frequency, regularity, proximity assessment, and remanded for further proceedings.
• Gregory v. Beazer East (Illinois Appellate Court, 1st District, 5th Division, 2008). The appellate court affirmed summary judgment for Mobil (no duty to the pipe fitter) and the order applying Indiana law in favor of Georgia-Pacific, so the widow lost on both claims.
• Griffin v. Allis-Chalmers Corporation Product Liability Trust (Oregon Court of Appeals, 2010). The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court's summary judgment for Union Carbide and remanded, ruling for plaintiff Craig Steadman's estate against Union Carbide.
• Griffin v. AP Servs., Inc. (New York Supreme Court, 2013). The trial court denied defendant William Powell Company's motion for summary judgment, finding plaintiff Robert Griffin raised a triable issue about exposure to asbestos from Powell valves aboard the USS Eberle.
• Griffin v. CBS Corporation (U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington, 2016). The court granted plaintiff Sarah Griffin's motion and transferred the case to the Southern District of California under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a), rejecting defendant SDG&E's argument that transfer should be under § 1406.
• Grimes v. AT&T Corp. (U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 2018). The district court declined supplemental jurisdiction after the only federal-officer-removal defendant (Crane) was dismissed on unopposed summary judgment, and remanded the case to the Superior Court of New Jersey, Middlesex County, without ruling on the remaining defendants' summary judgment motions.
• Grimes v. AT&T Corp. (U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey, 2017). The court denied, without prejudice to renewal, the motions of Canadian asbestos miners Asbestos Corporation Limited and Bell Asbestos Mines to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, and ordered limited jurisdictional discovery for plaintiff Estelle Grimes.
• Grimes v. CBS Corporation (U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 2018). The district court denied defendant Crane Co.'s Rule 19 motion to require plaintiffs to join the defendants they had sued in a parallel state court action.
• Gromack v. Johns-Manville Products Corp. (New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division, 1977). The Appellate Division reduced the attorney's fee awarded to the widow's counsel from $7,000 to $5,000 and reallocated it to $1,000 from the widow and $4,000 from employer Johns-Manville, modifying the judgment.
• Groover v. CBS Corporation (Pennsylvania Superior Court, 2014). The Superior Court affirmed the trial court's orders granting summary judgment to CBS Corporation (Westinghouse) and Spirax Sarco, Inc. against Allen Groover, because he offered insufficient evidence that his wife breathed asbestos fibers from their products.
• Grossman v. AO Smith Water Products Co. (New York Supreme Court, 2008). The court granted the plaintiffs' motion and ordered the four asbestos cases tried jointly over the defendants' objections.
• Guaranty Nat. Ins. Co. v. Azrock Industries Inc. (U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, 2000). The Fifth Circuit reversed summary judgment for Guaranty National Insurance on its duty to defend and indemnify Azrock (except for one property damage claim, where it affirmed) and remanded to apply the exposure trigger.
• Guillot v. Avondale Industries, Inc. (U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, 2018). The court granted Linda Guillot's motion to remand and sent the case back to Orleans Parish Civil District Court, rejecting Avondale's federal officer removal because it showed no causal nexus between federal direction and her claims.
• Guthe v. Johnson & Johnson (U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Missouri, 2024). The court granted PTI Union's motion to dismiss the strict liability, negligence and willful-and-wanton counts against it without prejudice, and denied its request for a stay without prejudice; the plaintiffs lost on the dismissed counts, though they may amend.
• Gutierrez v. Cassiar Mining Corp. (California Court of Appeal, 1st Appellate District, 2nd Division, 1998). The Court of Appeal reversed the $37,240 economic damages award for medical monitoring because the trial court refused Cassiar Mining's requested preexisting-condition instruction, affirmed the rest of the judgment for Gutierrez, and limited any retrial to monitoring costs.
• Gutteridge v. AP Green Services, Inc. (Pennsylvania Superior Court, 2002). The Superior Court reversed the summary judgments for Hercules Chemical, Pecora and PECO, which had been entered against Mrs. Gutteridge, and remanded the case for further proceedings.