18 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana · February 28, 2014
Davidson v. Georgia Pacific LLC (2014)
The court granted partial summary judgment for defendants Union Carbide, CertainTeed, Beazer East and Georgia-Pacific, dismissing the plaintiffs' survival claim as prescribed. Under Louisiana law, a voluntary dismissal of an earlier suit erases any interruption…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · July 21, 2010
Summers v. Certainteed Corp. (2010)
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed the Superior Court's order affirming summary judgment for Union Carbide, Certainteed and Allied Signal, disapproved Quate v. American Standard, and sent the cases back so Summers and Nybeck could proceed…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana · July 14, 2014
Davidson v. Georgia Pacific LLC (2014)
…Beazer East, Georgia-Pacific and Union Carbide, dismissing the plaintiffs' claims with prejudice and dismissing the third-party complaints as moot. An expert's "every exposure" theory of asbestos causation is inadmissible under Rule 702 and…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · April 4, 2018
Kister v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (In re Asbestos Litigation, 2018)
…judgment to Buffalo Pumps, Fairbanks, CertainTeed, Foster Wheeler, Union Carbide, Aurora and Pfizer, because Mr. Kister identified none of their asbestos-containing products and the plaintiff did not respond. Under maritime law, a plaintiff must show…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · April 19, 2016
Davidson v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC (2016)
William Davidson was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2010 and sued manufacturers, suppliers and contractors in Louisiana state court. The case was removed to federal court, and Davidson died in 2011. After his first suit was dismissed without…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · March 28, 2017
Klock v. Albany Intl. Corp. (2017)
Two men, William McIntosh and Leonard Gaumes, both developed mesothelioma. Both had worked at the Gouverneur Talc mine in overlapping years. McIntosh died in November 2015, and his estate, represented by Christine Klock, sued. Gaumes and his wife…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Louisiana · January 6, 2014
Davidson v. Georgia Pacific, LLC (2014)
…children of William Cleve Davidson sued Georgia-Pacific, Beazer East, CertainTeed and Union Carbide in a wrongful death and survival action. Davidson had earlier sued for personal injury, alleging he was exposed to asbestos from the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · May 22, 2017
Smith v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC (2017)
Ronald Smith sued many companies in Orleans Parish, Louisiana, state court, alleging he developed mesothelioma from asbestos exposure. One defendant, Taylor-Seidenbach, a local insulation contractor and supplier, was a Louisiana citizen like Smith.…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · June 20, 2017
Altman v. Ford Motor Co. (In re New York City Asbetos Litigation, 2017)
…1950s-1980s; helper in boiler and furnace removal and installation stepfather's boiler and furnace business 1950s; worker at a construction products company 1970s; handyman 1970s and 1980s; union carpenter various construction sites 1960s to 1980s
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · January 12, 2016 · in the opinion
Herbert v. American Biltrite (2016)
… AZROCK INDUSTRIES, INC.; CERTAINTEED CORPORATION; DAVIS FETCH CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA; EGGERS INDUSTRIES; GEORGIA PACIFIC CORPORATION; H.B. FULLER COMPANY; HAJOCA CORPORATION; KAISER GYPSUM COMPANY, INC.; UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION AND ITS LINDE DIVISION; WEYERHAEUSER COMPANY, Appellees. No…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · September 29, 2017 · in the opinion
Leech v. 3M Company (2017)
…Lassus, Jr., Hailey, McNamara, Hall, Larmann & Papale & Richard J. Garvey, Jr., Hailey, McNamara, Hall, Larmann & Papale. Union Carbide Corporation, Defendant, represented by McGready Lewis Richeson, Pugh, Accardo, Haas, Radecker & Carey, Francis Xavier deBlanc, III, Pugh, Accardo…
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Court case · Kentucky Supreme Court · December 16, 2010 · in the opinion
Certainteed Corporation v. Dexter (2010)
…Corp.; Motion Industries, Inc.; Southern Manufacturing, Inc.; Triangle Insulation and Sheetmetal Co.; Union Carbide Corp.; and Westinghouse Electric Corp. \[2\] These additional defendants were: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.; Arkema, Inc.; CC Metals and Alloys, LLC…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · May 18, 2011 · in the opinion
Graver v. Allentown Cement Co. (In re Liability Litigation, 2011)
…lacked any legitimate basis for removal, or that it was "patently unmeritorious or frivolous" under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11. Doering v. Union County Bd. of Chosen Freeholds, 857 F.2d 191, 194 (3d Cir…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · July 1, 2019 · in the opinion
Noll v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2019)
…2013. In the late 1970's, Noll worked with asbestos-cement pipe manufactured by the CertainTeed Corporation. Special Electric provided large quantities of asbestos to CertainTeed's Santa Clara plant in the 1970's, including a…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · May 16, 2011 · in the opinion
Graver v. Allentown Cement Co. (In re Asbestos Products Liability Lit.(no. VI), 2011)
…any legitimate basis for removal, or that it was "patently unmeritorious or frivolous" under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11. Doering v. Union County Bd. of Chosen Freeholders, 857 F.2d 191, 194 (3d Cir.1988…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · November 21, 2018 · in the opinion
Trapp v. CertainTEED Corporation (2018)
…4th 148, 161.) Thus, it is generally "\amenable to resolution by summary judgment.'" (Kahn v. East Side Union High School Dist. (2003) 31 Cal.4th 990, 1004.) We review the existence of duty de novo. (Kesner…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · February 10, 2015 · in the opinion
Green v. CertainTEED Corporation (2015)
…burden, the burden shifts to the plaintiff to show the existence of a triable issue of material fact as to that cause of action. (Union Bank v. Superior Court (1995) 31 Cal.App.4th 573, 583…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 15, 2019 · in the opinion
Burch v. Certainteed Corporation (2019)
…they were judicially construed in 1986 to apply to strict product liability cases\].) To the extent ambiguity exists, Proposition 51's ballot materials also aid our construction. (See Amador Valley Joint Union High Sch. Dist. v…