18 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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Court case · District of Columbia Court of Appeals · August 24, 1989
District of Columbia v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation (1989)
The District of Columbia sued thirty-seven miners, manufacturers, sellers and distributors of asbestos. It sought removal costs and other damages for asbestos in roughly 2,400 public buildings, including schools, libraries, hospitals, government…
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Court case · Illinois Supreme Court · October 25, 1989
Board of Education v. A, C & S, Inc. (1989)
Thirty-four Illinois school districts, including the Chicago Board of Education, sued 78 asbestos makers, distributors and installers. They sought the cost of inspecting, repairing and removing asbestos-containing materials in their buildings, which the Asbestos…
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Court case · Ohio Supreme Court · October 14, 1987
Goldman v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1987)
The executrix of Roy Goldman's estate sued Johns-Manville and many other asbestos companies over Goldman's death. Goldman had worked at the Sherlock Bakery in Toledo, Ohio. The plaintiff could not identify which products at the bakery contained…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit · March 27, 1989
Dube v. Pittsburgh Corning (1989)
Joan Dube died in 1984 of mesothelioma. From age nine until her marriage (1959 to 1973) she was exposed to asbestos dust carried home on the work clothes of her father, who worked as a pipe insulator at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery,…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · January 31, 1986
Knauer v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
George Knauer and his wife Ann sued thirteen asbestos manufacturers in federal court in Maryland in December 1980, alleging he developed mesothelioma from exposure to defendants' asbestos products. He died on May 1, 1982. On May 6, 1985, five days…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · November 25, 1985
Graffagnino v. Fibreboard Corp. (1985)
Steve Graffagnino worked as an insulator at Texaco's Port Arthur, Texas, refinery for about forty years and handled asbestos products made and distributed by the defendants. In 1981 he and his wife sued over his asbestos exposure and settled for…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi · November 21, 1980 · in the opinion
McCarty v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1980)
…S. Allred, Jackson, Miss., for Acands, Inc. Richard L. Forman, Jackson, Miss., for Nicolet, Inc., Owens-Illinois, Inc. and National Gypsum Co. Thomas W. Tardy, III, Jackson, Miss., for Combustion Engineering, Inc. M. M. Roberts, Hattiesburg…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Columbia · October 28, 1981
Fearson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1981)
Rita Fearson, as administratrix, sued Johns-Manville and other asbestos product companies after her husband Joseph Fearson died of lung cancer in 1979 at age 57. He had worked as an asbestos insulation installer in the District of Columbia from 1936…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit · April 7, 1981
Clutter v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1981)
Three Ohio plaintiffs, Russell Clutter (whose widow continued his suit), George Dwiggins and Martin McGreevey, sued makers of asbestos products in federal court. Clutter had pleural mesothelioma and was exposed while dismantling a chemical plant and…
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Court case · Ohio Court of Common Pleas · March 22, 1984
English v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1984)
Virginia English, as executrix of her husband Thomas English's estate, sued Johns-Manville and other companies. She claimed he died of pleural mesothelioma caused by inhaling asbestos fibers from the defendants' products. The defendants said the…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · September 3, 1982
Staiano v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1982)
Carman Staiano sued a group of asbestos product makers, including Johns-Manville, Owens-Corning and Celotex, for personal injuries. His wife, Rita, sued for loss of consortium. He alleged he was exposed to asbestos dust from…
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Court case · Delaware Superior Court · August 23, 1983
Nutt v. AC & S., Inc. (1983)
Four consolidated Delaware cases were brought by present or former asbestos workers and their wives. The defendants were two employers, du Pont and Haveg, and a group of asbestos product suppliers. The workers claimed the defendants misled them…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · February 28, 1986
Joyce v. AC and S., Inc. (1986)
James Troy Joyce worked for DuPont at its Martinsville, Virginia, plant and was exposed to asbestos as an insulator for about eleven years, ending in 1972. He had pleural thickening on X-rays by 1970. Pleural effusion and asbestosis developed in…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maine · March 17, 1986
In re Moorenovich (1986)
Several people who say they were exposed to asbestos, along with the estate of one of them, brought consolidated cases in the federal district court in Maine against many asbestos product companies. Before trial, the defendants asked the court to…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · June 3, 1985 · in the opinion
Gideon v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1985)
…v. Satterwhite, 329 S.W.2d 899 (Tex.Civ.App.1959); Texas & N.O. Ry. Co. v. Owens, 299 S.W. 933 (Tex.Civ.App.1927). \[23\] See, e.g., Moulton v. Alamo Ambulance Service, Inc.…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · May 24, 1983 · in the opinion
Wedgeworth v. Fibreboard Corp. (1983)
…Inc.; Neubauer v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 26 B.R. 644 (E.D.Wis.1983). The careful balancing of interests mandated by the Supreme Court in Landis requires that the stays granted in the instant cases…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · March 23, 1984 · in the opinion
Adams v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1984)
…is AFFIRMED. \[1\] Evidence introduced at trial indicated that Adams was smoking as many as 15 cigars a day before he quit in 1974. \[2\] The settling defendants were: Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.; Armstrong Cork Co.…
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Court case · Florida Supreme Court · March 17, 1988 · in the opinion
Celotex Corp. v. Meehan (1988)
…been diagnosed with asbestosis will not inevitably contract either mesothelioma or lung cancer); Lavelle v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp., 30 Ohio Misc.2d 11, 507 N.E.2d 476 (1987)(a plaintiff can never prove causation…