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  1. 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…

  2. 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…

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · July 26, 1982

    Hardy v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)

    Dozens of workers, including insulators, pipefitters, carpenters and factory workers, sued many makers and sellers of asbestos-containing products in federal court in East Texas. They claimed exposure to the products and resulting disease. Each…

  6. 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…

  7. Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii · December 9, 1986 · in the opinion

    In re Hawaii Federal Asbestos Cases (1986)

    …A.2d 326, 329 (1985) (no negligence based state of the art defense allowed in design defect or failure to warn product liability cases); Elmore v. Owens-Illinois, Inc., 673 S.W.2d 434, 438 (Mo…

  8. Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota · January 11, 1982 · in the opinion

    Bertrand v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)

    …Thibodeau & Seiler, Duluth, Minn., for Johns-Manville Sales Corp. John Borger, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, Minn., for Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. Duane Arndt, Arndt & Benton, P. A., Minneapolis, Minn., for Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. [\540] James R…

  9. 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…

  10. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit · July 30, 1982

    Wilson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1982)

    Henry Wilson worked as an insulation worker at construction sites in the Washington, D.C. area from 1941. In February 1973 an x-ray showed he had mild asbestosis. In February 1978 he was diagnosed with mesothelioma, and he died in May 1978. In May…

  11. 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…

  12. 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…

  13. 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…

  14. 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.…

  15. 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…

  16. 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.…