The Attorney General's Asbestos Liability Report to the Congress (1981)

Excerpt from the Attorney General's report to Congress of September 21, 1981, written under the Asbestos School Hazard Detection and Control Act of 1980. It weighed whether the government could recover the cost of school asbestos abatement from manufacturers. The excerpt has the cover and Section IV, 'Industry Awareness of Asbestos Health Hazards' (pp. 34–45A). That section reviews industry correspondence produced in litigation, including the 1934 Vandiver Brown–Lanza letter, the Simpson–Rossiter letters about Asbestos magazine, and 1956–57 Asbestos Textile Institute minutes. It cautions that authenticity may be disputed. Pages 86–93 discuss manufacturers' duty, failure to warn and test, and collateral estoppel after Borel.