30 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 2
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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 · Washington Court of Appeals · September 18, 1989
IN the Matter of Estate OF Foster (1989)
Kathryn Koehler, personal representative of Edwin Foster's estate, sued asbestos insulation manufacturers, including Fibreboard and Owens-Illinois, alleging improper design and lack of warnings. Foster developed mesothelioma, which the estate attributed to asbestos exposure at…
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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, Third Circuit · September 22, 1987
In re Asbestos Litigation (1987)
…which was a loss for the manufacturers (Raymark, Owens-Illinois, GM and others) and a win for the plaintiffs. Common law decisions of a state's highest court are subject to equal protection review under the…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · December 15, 1988
Whatley v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1988)
…award, but modified the judgment to raise Raymark's share from 9.09% to 27.27% of damages because Raymark failed to prove fault by settling defendants Owens-Illinois and Armstrong. Under Texas comparative causation (Duncan)…
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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. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · November 28, 1988
Menne v. Celotex Corp. (1988)
Mary Menne, as personal representative of her husband Donald Menne's estate, sued several asbestos product makers after he developed mesothelioma. Menne had worked as a pipefitter at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington in the 1940s, next to…
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Court case · Oklahoma Supreme Court · September 22, 1987
Case v. Fibreboard Corp. (1987)
Bobbie Edwin Case and his wife Eva sued twenty-two asbestos product makers in federal court in Oklahoma. Mr. Case said he was a sheet metal worker in Oklahoma from 1949 on and was exposed to asbestos-containing products made and sold by the…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · July 15, 1985
Dartez v. Fibreboard Corp. (1985)
…and remanded for a new trial against Celotex, Fibreboard, Owens-Illinois and Pittsburgh Corning, but reversed the judgment against Raymark and dismissed it from the case. Under Texas law, a plaintiff without a medically probable cancer…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Kansas · August 19, 1986
Menne v. Celotex Corp. (1986)
…at his workplace and caused his disease, and awarded $2,500,000. The jury found for Keene and Owens-Illinois. The four losing defendants asked for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, a new trial or a reduced…
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Court case · Florida Supreme Court · June 13, 1985
Celotex Corp. v. Copeland (1985)
Lee Loyd Copeland and his wife sued sixteen asbestos product manufacturers. Copeland worked as a boilermaker from 1942 to 1975 on 50 to 100 jobs, and he developed asbestosis and an asbestos-related cancer. He said the products were mostly insulation…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · June 24, 1988
Bauer v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1988)
…Armstrong, Eagle-Picher, Owens-Corning, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh Corning). A denial of a new trial motion based on the verdict being against the weight of the evidence is not reviewable on appeal, and a judgment n…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Colorado · February 12, 1987
Rice v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1987)
Ruby Rice sued eighteen companies on behalf of the estate and heirs of her late husband, Norman E. Rice, who developed mesothelioma and died. She alleged he was exposed to asbestos products made or sold by the defendants and that they failed to warn…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · February 5, 1986
Jenkins v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1986)
Wanda Jenkins and other plaintiffs with asbestos-related personal injury suits pending in the Eastern District of Texas sued thirteen companies. Ten of the plaintiffs asked the court to certify a class of all such pending cases. They wanted to…
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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. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · August 9, 1988
Hardy v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (1988)
Five men, William Hardy, Richard Smith, James Dartez, Cecil Overstreet and John Burke, each sued several asbestos product makers in federal court in Texas, seeking damages for asbestos exposure. The cases were consolidated for trial. The jury was…
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Court case · Texas Court of Appeals · December 29, 1988 · in the opinion
Pecorino v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1988)
…CELOTEX CORPORATION EAGLE-PICHER INDUSTRIES, INC. FIBREBOARD CORPORATION GAF CORPORATION ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES, INC. KEENE CORPORATION NICOLET INDUSTRIES, INC. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORPORATION OWENS-ILLINOIS, INC. PITTSBURGH CORNING CORPORATION H.K. PORTER COMPANY, INC. RAYMARK INDUSTRIES…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · November 19, 1984 · in the opinion
Colombo v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1984)
…Picher Industries, Inc. [\1122] John F. Ledwith, Philadelphia, Pa., for Keene Corp. Peter J. Lynch, Philadelphia, Pa., for Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Joan K. Garner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., Robert N. Kelly, Trial Atty…
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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…