6 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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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, 1983
Froud v. Celotex Corp. (1983)
The Illinois Supreme Court reversed the appellate court and affirmed the circuit court's dismissal of the plaintiffs' common law punitive damages claims against the asbestos defendants, including Celotex, because those claims did not survive the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · March 20, 1985
Lowe v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1985)
Eugene Lowe and his wife sued a group of asbestos companies in 1982 over injuries from his work exposure to asbestos. Lowe died in September 1982, and his co-administrators were substituted as plaintiffs. He had worked at various times from 1942 at…
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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. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan · January 14, 1987
Marshall v. Celotex Corp. (1987)
…applying Michigan law, rejected three. Alternative liability failed because not all possible suppliers, including Owens-Corning and Johns-Manville, were sued. Market share liability was unsuitable because asbestos products differ in harmfulness, and nothing showed the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan · August 18, 1988 · in the opinion
Marshall v. Celotex Corp. (1988)
…defendants' motion for judgment is GRANTED. IT IS SO ORDERED. \[1\] Johns-Manville Corporation and Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation. Plaintiff did not name Johns-Manville because it had filed for bankruptcy status. \[2\] Contra Abel v…