10 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Iowa · November 22, 1994
Perrin v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1994)
The district court granted summary judgment to defendants Owens Illinois, Owens Corning and Fibreboard and third-party defendant Flintkote, and denied the Perrins' request to shift the burden of proof on causation. Under Iowa law, evidence…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey · December 3, 2015
Feaster v. AW Chesterton Company (2015)
The court granted summary judgment to Owens-Illinois, Brand Insulations and Durametallic, and against plaintiff Feaster, because he did not identify any of them as a source of his asbestos exposure. Under New Jersey law, an…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Wisconsin · August 22, 2014 · in the opinion
Boyer v. Weyerhaeuser Company (2014)
Strict Liability Plaintiffs' strict liability claim against Owens-Illinois is similarly flawed. To impose strict liability under Wisconsin law, the defendant must be "engaged in the business" of selling the alleged defective product. Geboy v. TRL…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · August 5, 1985
Rosenberg v. Celotex Corp. (1985)
Stanley Rosenberg worked at the New York Naval Shipyard in Brooklyn from 1961 to 1965 and was exposed to asbestos products there. He was diagnosed with asbestosis in 1976 and malignant mesothelioma in 1978. He and his wife sued Celotex in New York…
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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 · U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania · September 11, 1986
Vigiolto v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)
Antoinette Vigiolto sued several asbestos product manufacturers after her husband, Christopher Vigiolto, died of pleural mesothelioma in 1981. He served in the Navy from 1943 to 1945 on two ships, and she alleged he inhaled asbestos dust and fibers…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · May 24, 1983 · in the opinion
Wedgeworth v. Fibreboard Corp. (1983)
…Inc.; Neubauer v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 26 B.R. 644 (E.D.Wis.1983). The careful balancing of interests mandated by the Supreme Court in Landis requires that the stays granted in the instant cases…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · March 1936
Dust Survey of the Raybestos Division's Bridgeport and Stratford Plants (1936)
…14-page file headed "Dust Survey of the Raybestos Division, Bridgeport & Stratford Plants, March 1936." It opens with three pages of comments, addressed to Morton Judd, on the conclusions of Metropolitan Life's 1935 survey of…
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Company document · Motley 1000 · 1948
Raybestos-Manhattan Sales and Price Records for Shipyards, the Navy and Other Customers (1948-1974)
A packet of 263 pages of Raybestos-Manhattan sales records, produced in litigation. It opens with document request forms signed by Charles Patrick of Blatt & Fales, Barnwell, South Carolina, and addressed to Clyde A. Szuch of…
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Company document · Sumner Simpson Papers · August 9, 1946
J. F. D. Rohrbach to Vandiver Brown Asking Gardner for Simple Conclusions in Advance (1946)
…States that Gardner owes a great deal to the industry and that it is unfortunate a brief report is not forthcoming considering the large amount the industry has invested in these experiments. Related documents Vandiver Brown…