14 results for “Owens-Illinois”
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · March 20, 1990
Johnson v. Celotex Corp. (1990)
…including compensatory and punitive damages, against Celotex and Owens-Illinois; one judge dissented as to punitive damages. A trial court may consolidate asbestos cases with common worksites and issues if it uses cautionary instructions and separate…
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Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · September 18, 1989
IN the Matter of Estate OF Foster (1989)
Kathryn Koehler, personal representative of Edwin Foster's estate, sued asbestos insulation manufacturers, including Fibreboard and Owens-Illinois, alleging improper design and lack of warnings. Foster developed mesothelioma, which the estate attributed to asbestos exposure at…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit · May 9, 1991
Sawyer v. Fibreboard Corp. (In re Hawaii Federal Asbestos Cases, 1991)
…the plaintiffs in all four cases, rejecting the appeals of Fibreboard and Owens-Illinois. The military contractor defense does not shield suppliers of ordinary commercial asbestos insulation sold to the Navy, and it would not bar…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit · April 14, 1995
Kirk v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1995)
…judgment for plaintiff Sarah Kirk against Owens-Corning and remanded for a new trial on damages and liability, because the district court refused to strike two biased jurors for cause, impairing Owens-Corning's peremptory challenges…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · December 15, 1988
Whatley v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1988)
…award, but modified the judgment to raise Raymark's share from 9.09% to 27.27% of damages because Raymark failed to prove fault by settling defendants Owens-Illinois and Armstrong. Under Texas comparative causation (Duncan)…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit · March 27, 1989
Dube v. Pittsburgh Corning (1989)
Joan Dube died in 1984 of mesothelioma. From age nine until her marriage (1959 to 1973) she was exposed to asbestos dust carried home on the work clothes of her father, who worked as a pipe insulator at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery,…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · November 28, 1988
Menne v. Celotex Corp. (1988)
Mary Menne, as personal representative of her husband Donald Menne's estate, sued several asbestos product makers after he developed mesothelioma. Menne had worked as a pipefitter at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Washington in the 1940s, next to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Kansas · August 19, 1986
Menne v. Celotex Corp. (1986)
…at his workplace and caused his disease, and awarded $2,500,000. The jury found for Keene and Owens-Illinois. The four losing defendants asked for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, a new trial or a reduced…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · June 24, 1988
Bauer v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1988)
…Armstrong, Eagle-Picher, Owens-Corning, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh Corning). A denial of a new trial motion based on the verdict being against the weight of the evidence is not reviewable on appeal, and a judgment n…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit · September 26, 1990
Hoffman v. Allied Corp. (1990)
Milton Hoffman and his wife Lillian sued Armstrong World Industries and other asbestos product makers in federal court in Florida. Milton was diagnosed with pleural malignant mesothelioma. During World War II he spent about 14 months as a lathe…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania · November 19, 1984 · in the opinion
Colombo v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1984)
…Picher Industries, Inc. [\1122] John F. Ledwith, Philadelphia, Pa., for Keene Corp. Peter J. Lynch, Philadelphia, Pa., for Owens-Illinois Glass Co. Joan K. Garner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., Robert N. Kelly, Trial Atty…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii · December 9, 1986 · in the opinion
In re Hawaii Federal Asbestos Cases (1986)
…A.2d 326, 329 (1985) (no negligence based state of the art defense allowed in design defect or failure to warn product liability cases); Elmore v. Owens-Illinois, Inc., 673 S.W.2d 434, 438 (Mo…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · November 5, 1997 · in the opinion
Ciletti v. Raymark Indus. (In re Asbestos Litigation, 1997)
…part, Consorti v. Armstrong World Indust., Inc., 72 F.3d 1003 (2d Cir.1995), vacated, Consorti v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., \_\_\_ U.S. \_\_\_, 116 S.Ct. 2576, 135 L.Ed.2d 1091 (1996), on remand, Consorti…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, District of Maine · December 29, 1986 · in the opinion
In re All Maine Asbestos Litigation (1986)
…Colby College, 402 A.2d 846, 851 (Me.1979) (holding that landowner owes duty of reasonable care in all circumstances to all persons lawfully on the land). The second theory asserts that the United States, as…