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

Our case-law library holds 353 asbestos decisions from the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana (1991–2025). Each links to our summary and the full opinion.

• Kind of court: Federal district court

Decisions

• Hernandez v. Todd Shipyards Corporation (2004). The court granted plaintiff Eunice Hernandez's motion to remand the case to Orleans Parish Civil District Court for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, rejecting the removing defendants' LHWCA preemption argument, and denied her request for costs and expenses.
• Coates v. AC and S, Inc. (1994). The court ruled before trial that pre-comparative-fault Louisiana law and virile-share apportionment governed the wrongful death claim, denied plaintiffs' per se unreasonably dangerous motion, admitted the OSHA and EPA publications, and denied Owens-Corning's motions on third-party medical payments, mental anguish and reverse bifurcation.
• Bergeron v. Celotex Corp. (1991). The court granted Foster Wheeler and Flintkote partial summary judgment dismissing the daughter Loretta Ann Young's wrongful death claim as prescribed, granted Foster Wheeler partial summary judgment dismissing both plaintiffs' wrongful death claims because workers' compensation was the exclusive remedy, and denied plaintiffs' motion to extend the deadline to amend pleadings.