19 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · April 17, 2017
McClung v. 3M Company (2017)
The court severed the claims against General Electric and transferred them to the Southern District of West Virginia, granting General Electric's request and denying its motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction as moot…
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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, Third Circuit · October 3, 2017
Devries v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation, 2017)
Roberta Devries and Shirley McAfee, widows of two deceased Navy veterans, sued several equipment manufacturers in Pennsylvania state court. They alleged their husbands contracted cancer from asbestos exposure on Navy ships, and in McAfee's case the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · March 17, 2011 · in the opinion
Kiser v. AW Chesterton Co. (2011)
…Plaintiff argues that either Virginia's General Assembly was aware of what Plaintiff sees as a national trend in favor of adoption of the separate disease rule and embodied this trend when it amended Virginia's…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · March 16, 2011
Kiser v. AW Chesterton Co. (2011)
Phyllis Kiser, as executor of her husband Orvin Kiser, Sr.'s estate, brought a wrongful death suit in October 2010 against a group of companies whose asbestos-containing products were alleged to have caused his mesothelioma. He was diagnosed with…
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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 · Illinois Appellate Court · December 11, 2001 · in the opinion
Dykstra v. AP Green Industries, Inc. (2001)
…Moraine, a Division of General Motors Corporation, Surabla Manufacturing Company, Fibreboard Corporation, Flexitallic Gasket Co., Inc., The Flintkote Company, Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation, GAF Corporation, Garlock, Inc., General Electric Company, General Gasket Corporation, General Refractories Company…
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Court case · Ohio Court of Appeals · December 31, 2007 · in the opinion
Penn v. A-Best Prods. Co. (2007)
…Rimmel, for appellee Mobil Corporation. Oldham & Dowling, Reginald S. Kramer, and Terri L. Nass, for appellees General Electric Company and CBS Corporation. Trenz, McKay & Knabe Co., LPA, and Tim McKay, for appellee R.E. Kramig. Tucker…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maryland · October 31, 2014 · in the opinion
Netzer v. Union Carbide Corp. (2014)
…without subpoena by defendants";\[8\] — May 26, 2014: Netzer to "name \most likely to use' general product identification fact witnesses from the original fact witness list who have previously been deposed";\[9\] — June 9, 2014: "Last…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Central District of California · September 6, 2013 · in the opinion
Lara v. CBS Corp. (2013)
…2013. United States District Court, C.D. California. CIVIL MINUTES — GENERAL AUDREY B. COLLINS, District Judge. Proceedings: ORDER Granting Plaintiffs' Motion to Remand (In Chambers) Pending before the Court is Plaintiffs' Motion to Immediately Remand Plaintiffs…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · February 22, 2017 · in the opinion
Kelly v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC (2017)
…asbestos fibers — were inhaled and became embedded in the lungs of the plaintiffs without their knowledge or consent. This, like the electric shock suffered by the plaintiff in Clark \[v. Choctawhatchee, 107 So.2d 609 (Fla…
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Court case · U.S. Supreme Court · June 25, 1997 · in the opinion
Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor (1997)
"But the settlement does more than simply provide a general recovery fund," the Court of Appeals immediately added; "\[r\]ather, it makes important judgments on how recovery is to be allocated among different kinds of plaintiffs…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · January 11, 2023 · in the opinion
Lebeau v. Huntington Ingalls Inc. (2023)
… to pertain; refer; to bring into association with or connection with.'"\[66\] Unlike the general removal statute, which must be strictly construed in favor of remand, the Federal Officer Removal statute's language must be liberally…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Central District of California · February 12, 2013 · in the opinion
Nelson v. Air and Liquid Systems Corp. (2013)
…2012) ("As a general rule, the existence of removal jurisdiction is determined at the time the removal petition is filed, irrespective of subsequent events. Federal courts have applied this general rule to federal officer removal jurisdiction…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · December 13, 2018 · in the opinion
Nauheimer v. Union Carbide Corp. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2018)
…Mass toxic tort cases, including asbestos cases, may be consolidated if they meet the requirements of the general rule governing consolidation of cases (In re Asbestos Litigation, 173 F.R.D.81, 38 Fed.R.Serv…
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Court case · Delaware Superior Court · August 30, 2017 · in the opinion
Kivell v. Union Carbide Corp. (In re Asbestos Litigation, 2017)
…a United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana held that the Smtih court expanded the general land owner duty to include that a land owner "had a duty to take reasonable steps to…
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Court case · Florida District Court of Appeal · October 24, 2012 · in the opinion
Rich v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc. (2012)
…Georgia plant. Rather, Lehnert's testimony was about Georgia Pacific's general use of asbestos, including its decision to remove asbestos from its products, the notice and information that they had at the time they made…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · September 26, 2013 · in the opinion
Howard v. AW Chesterton Co. (2013)
…reports in asbestos cases must contain a discussion of the methodology supporting the expert opinion. There are enough nuances pertaining to this subject that we are unable to make such a general pronouncement here. We recognize…