U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota: Asbestos Cases

Our case-law library holds 3 asbestos decisions from the U.S. District Court, District of North Dakota (1990–2023). Each links to our summary and the full opinion.

• Kind of court: Federal district court

Decisions

• Pyle v. AH Bennett Co. (2023). The magistrate judge granted in part and denied in part the defendants' motions to compel: plaintiffs Pyle and Frericks must say whether they investigated asbestos trust claims, but they will not be ordered to file trust claims or to amend their other discovery responses; defendants may serve more discovery.
• Pyle v. AH Bennett Co. (2022). The court denied the defendants' motions to enforce North Dakota's asbestos trust disclosure statute and to dismiss, without prejudice, but allowed defendants to serve federal discovery requests for trust information and extended the scheduling deadlines.
• Puppe By Puppe v. AC and S., Inc. (1990). The federal district court denied the defendants' motion to exclude any punitive damages claim, ruling that punitive damages may be sought in a North Dakota wrongful death action, and it adopted a procedure under which punitive damages are heard only after a plaintiff's verdict on liability and damages.