32 results for “Owens-Illinois”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division · December 22, 1989
Sholtis v. American Cyanamid Co. (1989)
Two long-time employees of the American Cyanamid plant, Robert Sholtis and Sam Lee, sued asbestos manufacturers and suppliers. Sholtis died at 65 of pleural asbestosis. He had worked as a mill operator, maintenance laborer, pipefitter's helper and…
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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 · Texas Court of Appeals · July 16, 1991
Fibreboard Corp. v. Pool (1991)
Five workers at the Texas Eastman plant in Longview, Texas, or their families sued Fibreboard, Owens-Illinois, Celotex, Flintkote and Garlock, claiming the companies failed to warn of asbestos dangers. The workers were insulators or maintenance…
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Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · August 12, 1996
Nelson v. Keene Corp. (1996)
Elda Nelson and Patricia Dunning sued asbestos companies after Robert Nelson, a former asbestos worker, and Colette Fitzsimmons, a teacher exposed at her school, developed mesothelioma and died in 1987. In April 1987 the plaintiffs had opened Rule…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Central District of Illinois · February 25, 2020
Hicks v. Ford Motor Company (2020)
…may be treated as fraudulently joined when procedural rules (waiver, and Illinois limits on reconsideration with late evidence) leave no reasonable possibility of reinstating the claim; the common-defense exception does not apply where the reason…
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Court case · Florida Supreme Court · June 13, 1985
Celotex Corp. v. Copeland (1985)
Lee Loyd Copeland and his wife sued sixteen asbestos product manufacturers. Copeland worked as a boilermaker from 1942 to 1975 on 50 to 100 jobs, and he developed asbestosis and an asbestos-related cancer. He said the products were mostly insulation…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · October 27, 2004
Cichirillo v. Avondale Industries (2004)
…trial court's ruling that Cichirillo's claim against Northrop Grumman (Avondale), Flintkote, Territo, Owens-Illinois, Uniroyal, Hopeman Brothers and Charles Johnson was prescribed, and remanded the case for further proceedings. A timely suit in a…
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Court case · Pennsylvania Superior Court · June 23, 1994
Busfield v. AC & S., Inc. (1994)
Alva Busfield and his wife sued many asbestos companies. A jury found that Busfield had an asbestos-related disease, asymptomatic asbestosis or pleural thickening, but that it caused him no harm. The opinion does not describe where or how he was…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · June 2, 2004
Torrejon v. Mobil Oil Co. (2004)
Christina Torrejon sued Mobil Oil Company over the death of her husband, Joseph Torrejon, a merchant seaman who died of mesothelioma in 1994 at age 77. He had worked on Mobil vessels from 1941 to 1949 and in 1956 as an oiler, machinist, engineer and…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · November 26, 2003 · in the opinion
Taylor v. John Crane, Inc. (2003)
Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1997) 14 Cal.4th 985, 60 Cal.Rptr.2d 103, 928 P.2d 1181 (Richards) that controls here. In Richards, the Supreme Court had occasion to consider the interplay between Proposition 51 and…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · June 11, 2007 · in the opinion
Cadlo v. Metalclad Insulation Corporation (2007)
…a preponderance of the evidence that in reasonable medical probability, this exposure was a substantial factor contributing to \[Cadlo's\] risk of developing the disease." "Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1997) 16 Cal.4th 953 (Rutherford…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · April 18, 2019 · in the opinion
Rodrigue v. Anco Insulations, Inc. (2019)
…for summary judgment, plaintiffs have either moved to dismiss or settled with the following defendants which were party to the Joint Defendants' motion: FMC Corporation,\[20\] Ingersoll-Rand Company,\[21\] McCarty Corporation,\[22\] Owens-Illinois, Inc.…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · April 16, 2008 · in the opinion
Clemmer v. John Crane, Inc. (2008)
…new 2003). We have reviewed the instructions given to the jury and conclude that there was no error. Our Supreme Court addressed the issue of causation in asbestos cases in Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1997…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware · December 21, 2012 · in the opinion
In re the Flintkote Company (2012)
…2010 or September 2011. They filed no post-trial briefs, and counsel for Owens filed a withdrawal of appearance in this case on February 17, 2011. Doc. No. 5688. Accordingly, Owens-Illinois, Inc. has abandoned its…
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Court case · U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Delaware · December 21, 2012 · in the opinion
In re Flintkote Co. (2012)
…2010 or September 2011. They filed no post-trial briefs, and counsel for Owens filed a withdrawal of appearance in this case on February 17, 2011. Doc. No. 5688. Accordingly, Owens-Illinois, Inc. has abandoned its…
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Court case · California Court of Appeal · July 24, 2013 · in the opinion
Keeney v. AW Chesterton Company (2013)
…190 Cal.App.4th at p. 33.) Appellants rely on Sparks v. Owens-Illinois, Inc. (1995) 32 Cal.App.4th 461 (Sparks) and Stewart to argue that John Crane did not bear its burden of providing…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of California · August 1, 2014 · in the opinion
Willis v. Buffalo Pumps Inc. (2014)
…285). A. Threshold Exposure Plaintiff's claims require proof that Defendant caused or contributed to Donald Willis's exposure to asbestos. Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc., 16 Cal.4th 953, 975 (1997) ("\[P\]laintiffs \[bear\] the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Colorado · March 19, 2019 · in the opinion
Mestas v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2019)
…A trial is the appropriate means to determine what obligations, if any, each Defendant owes to Plaintiffs, and Plaintiffs have not shown that they cannot obtain complete relief from any Defendant without the absent parties. Second…
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Court case · Louisiana Court of Appeals · January 28, 1998
Re' v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1998)
Diana Re' sued Owens-Corning, Garlock, W.R. Grace, Flintkote and others in Orleans Parish. She alleged she developed mesothelioma from asbestos dust carried home on her father's work clothes during her childhood, from 1963…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · March 1, 2013
Motions for Access OF Garlock Sealing Technologies LLC (2013)
Garlock Sealing Technologies, a maker of sealing products, filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in North Carolina in 2010 to set up a trust for current and future asbestos claims. To prepare for a trial estimating its mesothelioma liability, it asked the…