18 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · Texas Supreme Court · December 5, 2008
N RE General Electric Company (2008)
The Texas Supreme Court held the trial court abused its discretion in denying General Electric, Warren Pumps and Ingersoll-Rand's forum non conveniens motions, and conditionally granted mandamus directing dismissal, against plaintiff Richards. Under Tex…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · February 14, 2019 · in the opinion
Walker v. Blackmer Pump Co. (2019)
…were Blackmer Pump Co., Buffalo Pumps, Inc., Carrier Corporation, CBS Corp., Copes-Vulcan, Inc., Foster Wheeler Corporation, General Electric Company, IMO Industries, Inc., Ingersoll-Rand Company, Patterson Pump Co., Tyco International, Inc., Tyco Valves & Controls, Inc.…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · December 19, 2016 · in the opinion
Vesper v. 3M Company (2016)
…MATTHEW P. KESSLER, MCGIVNEY & KLUGER PC. FOSTER WHEELER, LLC, Defendant, represented by CHRISTOPHER J. KEALE, SEDGWICK LLP. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, Defendant, represented by CHRISTOPHER J. KEALE, SEDGWICK LLP & DAVID SCHUYLER BLOW, SEDGWICK LLP. GEORGIA-PACIFIC, LLC…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · July 31, 2012 · in the opinion
Thurmon v. Scapa Waycross (In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation, 2012)
…Plaintiffs named forty entities as defendants including Scapa Waycross, Warren Pumps and Honeywell International. Defendant General Electric removed the action to federal court on April 29, 2011. It was then transferred to MDL 875 on May…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut · February 19, 2015 · in the opinion
Bray v. Ingersoll-Rand Co. (2015)
…24 (Crane); 84:6-24 (same). He was able to recall only the brands Westinghouse and General Electric without prompting. Choate was prompted to describe certain elements of the products he recalled, such as their label…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio · March 17, 2017 · in the opinion
Shonkwiler v. AW Chesterton Company (2017)
…Sharp & Matthew T. Norman, Gallagher Sharp. ITT LLC, Defendant, represented by Steven A. Luxton, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. Aurora Pump Division of General Signal Corp., Defendant, represented by Tammy L. Imhoff, Dinsmore & Shohl. Viking Pump, Inc., Defendant…
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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, Northern District of California · September 26, 2024 · in the opinion
Smargisso v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2024)
…claims specifically—the claims at issue here. (Dkt. No. 139 at 13.) Thus, Plaintiffs fail to establish that the relief sought has been historically available under general maritime law. See Elorreaga v. Rockwell Automation, Inc., No…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · August 20, 2015 · in the opinion
Neureuther v. Atlas Copco Compressors, LLC (2015)
…person's expertise. Generalized knowledge of a particular subject will not necessarily enable an expert to testify as to a specific subset of the general field of the expert's knowledge. Martinez v. Sakurai Graphic Sys…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · August 18, 2015 · in the opinion
Neureuther v. Atlas Copco Compressors, LLC (2015)
…person's expertise. Generalized knowledge of a particular subject will not necessarily enable an expert to testify as to a specific subset of the general field of the expert's knowledge. Martinez v. Sakurai Graphic Sys…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 1, 2009 · in the opinion
Handley v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County (2009)
…purpose of judicial construction of a statute is to determine the meaning that comports most closely with the intent of the Legislature "\with the view to promoting rather than defeating the general purpose of the statute…