11 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · July 25, 2018
Kraus v. Alcatel-Lucent (2018)
… Government Contractor Defense and Removal; Venue, Removal and Transfer Worksites: General Electric building, 32nd and Chestnut Streets; U.S.S. Cambria; General Electric; office building at 32nd and Chestnut Streets, Philadelphia electronics officer and subsequently communications…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · June 30, 2011
Sublett v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2011)
…finding General Electric had not established federal officer removal jurisdiction. A removing defendant must show the Navy prevented it from complying with state-law warning duties to establish federal officer jurisdiction and the government contractor defense…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · June 22, 2017
Sawyer v. Foster Wheeler LLC (2017)
Joseph Morris worked as a shipbuilder at the Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point Shipyard in Maryland from 1948 into the 1970s and died of mesothelioma in 2015. His wife, children and the representative of his estate sued Foster Wheeler and other…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · July 29, 2011
Corley v. Bill Vann Co. (In re Liability Litigation, 2011)
The executor of Charles Corley's estate sued a group of companies in Alabama state court under the Alabama Wrongful Death Act. Mr. Corley had died of mesothelioma in October 2009. The case was removed to federal court and then sent to the asbestos…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · May 5, 2017 · in the opinion
Dugger v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2017)
…Products of Connecticut Corporation, Cross Defendant, represented by F. Ford Loker, Jr., Miles and Stockbridge PC. General Electric Company, Cross Defendant, represented by David J. Quigg, Meringer Zois and Quigg LLC. Genuine Parts Company, Cross Defendant…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois · March 6, 2014 · in the opinion
Smith v. AW Chesterton Company (2014)
…INC.; SPIRAX SARCO, INC.; GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY; CBS CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, f/k/a Viacom Inc., successor by merger to CBS Corporation, a Pennsylvania Corporation, f/k/a Westinghouse Electric Corporation; FLOWSERVE US, INC. a…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · March 7, 2013 · in the opinion
Joyner v. AC & R. Insulation Co. (2013)
…the weight of the proof presented—that matters." Id. at 782-83. After reviewing the conflicting cases, this court finds the analysis in Hagen cogent and consistent with the general removal standard. 28 U.S.C. …
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Court case · Indiana Supreme Court · March 25, 2003 · in the opinion
AlliedSignal, Inc. v. Herring (2003)
…Tennant Co., United States Gypsum Co., United States Mineral Products Co., Wagner Electric Co., Appellants (Defendants below), v. Lucille HERRING, on her own behalf and on behalf of the Estate of Loyd Herring, Deceased., Appellee (Plaintiff…
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Court case · Arkansas Supreme Court · July 5, 2002
Chavers v. General Motors Corp. (2002)
The Arkansas Supreme Court affirmed the trial court's summary judgment for General Motors, AlliedSignal and Ford, rejecting the claims of Deidra Chavers over her husband's mesothelioma death. Arkansas adopts the 'frequency, regularity, and proximity…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · May 16, 2006 · in the opinion
8th Jud Dist Asbestos Litig (2006)
…However, "a duty and the corresponding liability it imposes do not rise from mere foreseeability of the harm" (Hamilton at 235-236 \[no general duty of care in the marketing and distribution of handguns\]; see Eiseman…
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Court case · Indiana Court of Appeals · April 26, 1999 · in the opinion
Holmes v. ACandS, Inc. (1999)
…year discovery based statute of limitations applicable to product liability claims. The comprehensiveness of the medical malpractice act is evidence of the legislature's intent that it should prevail over the more general wrongful death statute…