21 results for “General Electric”, page 1 of 2
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · February 1, 2012
Conner v. Alfa Laval, Inc. (2012)
The court granted summary judgment to General Electric, Crane, Foster Wheeler, Warren Pumps, IMO Industries, Buffalo Pumps, Armstrong International and CBS, and denied the plaintiffs relief on their strict liability and negligence claims. Under maritime law…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Oregon · February 2, 2018
Coury v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2018)
…keeping the case in federal court under the federal officer removal statute for General Electric and CBS. A settlement-related email from a plaintiff's side can be an "other paper" under 28 U.S.C…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · February 1, 2012
Donn v. AW Chesterton Co., Inc. (2012)
The district court denied the motion of CBS Corporation and General Electric to dismiss plaintiff Alan Donn's asbestos failure-to-warn claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, rejecting their preemption and political question arguments…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Indiana · September 30, 2015
Hedden v. CBS Corporation (2015)
The court granted summary judgment to Crown Cork & Seal, CBS, General Electric, Gardner Denver, Link-Belt and Riley Power, and denied it to Crane Co. and John Crane, Inc. on the maritime claims, so the Heddens…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · March 6, 2017
Bell v. Foster Wheeler Energy Corp. (2017)
…judgment to General Electric, Crane, Air & Liquid Systems (Buffalo), Aurora Pump, Atwood & Morrill, CBS, IMO Industries and Warren Pumps. Under the court's narrowed bare metal defense, a component maker can be liable under general maritime…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana · October 7, 2014
Millet v. Huntington Ingalls Incorporated (2014)
…Foster Wheeler's unopposed summary judgment motion against third-party plaintiff Huntington Ingalls, and denied General Electric's and CBS's motions as premature, without prejudice to re-urging them later. Summary judgment is premature where…
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Court case · Tennessee Court of Appeals · March 13, 2008
Woody v. AW Chesterton Company (2008)
Wayne Woody, an insulator, and his wife Rebecca sued dozens of companies after he was diagnosed with pleural mesothelioma in 2006; he died shortly after the suit was filed. In 1979 the Woodys had sued 25 companies over his asbestosis and settled in…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · June 22, 2017
Sawyer v. Foster Wheeler LLC (2017)
Joseph Morris worked as a shipbuilder at the Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point Shipyard in Maryland from 1948 into the 1970s and died of mesothelioma in 2015. His wife, children and the representative of his estate sued Foster Wheeler and other…
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Court case · U.S. Supreme Court · March 19, 2019
Air and Liquid Systems Corp. v. DeVries (2019)
…Foster Wheeler, Ingersoll Rand, General Electric) and sent the case back so the District Court could reconsider under the Court's own duty-to-warn test, which favored the veterans' families. In maritime tort law, a…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · June 26, 2016
Rublee v. Carrier Corp. (2016)
Vernon Rublee died of mesothelioma in 2015. He had worked as a machinist at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard from 1965 to 1980, where other workers mixed and applied asbestos-containing refractory products called Insulag and Panelag around the steam…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of California · March 30, 2021
Pizarro v. National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (2021)
Renato Pizarro and his wife sued NASSCO, Pep Boys and other companies, alleging his mesothelioma came from asbestos exposure. The opinion describes two sources. One was the Navy overhaul of the USS Bristol County, where plaintiffs say NASSCO removed…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Delaware · August 29, 2016 · in the opinion
Malone v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2016)
General Electric Company, Cross Defendant, represented by Beth E. Valocchi, Swartz Campbell LLC. Nash Engineering Company, Cross Defendant, represented by Eric Scott Thompson, Franklin & Prokopik. Velan Valve Corporation, Cross Defendant, represented by Donald Robert Kinsley, Maron…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · May 29, 2018 · in the opinion
Brandes v. Brand Insulations, Inc. (2018)
…INC., CBS CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, f/k/a VIACOM, INC., successor by merger to CBS CORPORATION, a Pennsylvania Corporation, f/k/a WESTINGHOUSE ELECTRIC CORPORATION; PARSONS GOVERNMENT SERCIVES, INC.; and SABERHAGEN HOLDINGS, INC., Respondents. No…
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Court case · Maryland Court of Special Appeals · May 31, 2017 · in the opinion
Duffy v. CBS Corporation (2017)
…explained: A fundamental principle of the statute that defines the jurisdiction of the appellate courts is that, as a general rule, a party may appeal only from "a final judgment entered in a civil or criminal…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Wisconsin · June 9, 2015 · in the opinion
Nuutinen v. CBS Corporation (2015)
…Nuutinen during a shutdown in the early 70's, Vohs saw insulators in their general area remove an asbestos blanket from a flange bolting to the turbine. Removable insulation can be taken off and reused without…
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Court case · New York Supreme Court · May 1, 2018 · in the opinion
Bucci v. Air & Liquid Sys. Corp. (2018)
…and right lungs, which has spread to his brain. He is alleged to have been exposed to asbestos from approximately 1975 through the 1980s while employed as a general utility mechanic, mechanic B, and heavy equipment…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama · September 29, 2011 · in the opinion
Kite v. Bill Vann Company, Inc. (2011)
…her under color of such office. . . ." (Complaint at 13-14). It is this language on which the plaintiff relies for his disclaimer argument. As a general matter, "the plaintiff \[is\] the master of the claim. . . ." Caterpillar…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Illinois · August 28, 2015 · in the opinion
McALVEY v. Atlas Copco Compressors, LLC (2015)
…limited to the frequency, regularity and proximity of Plaintiff's exposure to asbestos products in general and his conclusion that Plaintiff experienced a significant exposure to asbestos based on his work activities. Finally, Defendants argue that…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · November 30, 2012 · in the opinion
Ruppel v. CBS Corporation (2012)
…and agents," the removal statute promotes litigating federal defenses (like official immunity) in a federal forum so that "the operations of the general government \[are not\] arrested at the will of one of \[the states\]." Id.…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina · August 16, 2018 · in the opinion
Finch v. BASF Catalysts LLC (2018)
…Gen. Stat. Ann. § 1D-5(7) (West 2018). A general awareness of danger is not enough to establish a conscious disregard of a known duty. Lee v. CertainTeed Corp., No. 5:13-CV-826-FL, 2015…