U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California: Asbestos Cases

Our case-law library holds 8 asbestos decisions from the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California (2015–2022). Each links to our summary and the full opinion.

• Kind of court: Federal district court

Decisions

• In re Bestwall LLC (2022). The court granted Bestwall LLC's motion, holding that Dr. Loomis could not claw back the data file he produced and must answer deposition questions about it, so Loomis and the claimants' association lost.
• Payne v. Abb, Inc. (2022). The court found the two actions related under Local Rule 123 and reassigned the later-filed Payne case to the same district judge and magistrate judge as the first-filed case, without consolidating them.
• Person v. Perry (2021). On screening, the magistrate judge granted plaintiff Walter Person in forma pauperis status, found his Eighth Amendment deliberate indifference claims against the prison officials cognizable, and ordered the complaint served on the defendants.
• Adcock v. Peery (2020). The court granted plaintiff Jerome Adcock's motion to proceed in forma pauperis and dismissed his complaint against the prison officials with leave to amend, because it did not yet state a cognizable Eighth Amendment claim.
• Carrera v. Johnson & Johnson (2019). The magistrate judge recommended denying Johnson & Johnson's request to stay and granting Dana Carrera's motion to remand her case to California state court, for lack of bankruptcy 'related to' jurisdiction or, alternatively, on equitable grounds.
• Deere v. Lizarraga (2019). A magistrate judge recommended granting summary judgment to Warden Joe Lizarraga against prisoner Arthur Ray Deere Sr. and struck Deere's unauthorized sur-reply.
• Strobel v. Colgate-Palmolive Company (2019). The district court granted Douglas and Jo Ann Strobel's motion to remand their talc mesothelioma suit to Solano County Superior Court, rejecting Johnson & Johnson's bankruptcy-related removal.
• Holcomb v. Colvin (2015). The court denied plaintiff Glenn Holcomb's motion for summary judgment, granted the Commissioner's cross-motion, and directed entry of judgment for the Commissioner, upholding the denial of disability benefits.