U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota: Asbestos Cases

Our case-law library holds 7 asbestos decisions from the U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota (1974–2017). Each links to our summary and the full opinion.

• Kind of court: Federal district court

Decisions

• Filipek v. the Boeing Company (2017). The court granted summary judgment to Boeing, Navistar, Borg-Warner Morse Tec, CBS, McNeil, Northern States Power and United Technologies because the Filipeks' claims were time-barred, denied the Filipeks' motion to withdraw an admission, and dismissed the case with prejudice.
• McGill v. Conwed Corporation (2017). The federal district court denied the plaintiffs' motion to remand to state court and granted Conwed Corporation's motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, dismissing the case without prejudice.
• Conwed Corporation v. Union Carbide Corporation (2004). The court granted Conwed's motion (treated as one for summary judgment) and dismissed with prejudice Union Carbide's counterclaim for contribution to its Naig settlements with Conwed's former employees.
• Conwed Corp. v. Union Carbide Corp. (2003). The district court denied Union Carbide's renewed motion for summary judgment on bulk supplier/sophisticated user grounds, leaving Conwed's subrogation claim against Union Carbide to proceed.
• Independent School Dist. No. 197 v. WR Grace (1990). The federal district court denied W.R. Grace's motions for summary judgment and dismissal on the limitations/repose, revival-statute, economic loss, merchantability, restitution, trade practices and preemption issues, and denied certification to the Minnesota Supreme Court; it granted Grace's unopposed motion on the implied warranty of fitness claim.
• Bertrand v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982). The court granted plaintiff Bertrand's partial summary judgment motion only on whether asbestos dust can cause asbestosis and mesothelioma, barring the defendants from litigating that point, and denied it on the state of the art defense and whether the products were unreasonably dangerous.
• United States v. Reserve Mining Company (1974). After a long trial, the district court enjoined Reserve Mining's discharges of amphibole fibers into Lake Superior and the air at Silver Bay, held its parents Armco and Republic responsible, and ruled for the United States, the states and the intervening plaintiffs against the defendants.