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  1. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit · May 26, 1992 · in the opinion

    Rohrbaugh v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (1992)

    …Appellants answered with a general denial that their products were defective and that they were negligent. The case was tried to a jury and the jury returned a verdict in favor of the Plaintiffs and against…

  2. Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · September 9, 2013 · in the opinion

    Lefevre v. CBS Corporation (2013)

    …To avoid this result, courts have developed four exceptions to the general rule that liabilities are not transferred: (1) the purchaser expressly or impliedly agrees to assume liability; (2) the purchase is a de facto merger…

  3. Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · December 7, 2021 · in the opinion

    Jones v. Pneumo Abex LLC (2021)

    …marks omitted.) Id. In contrast, a defendant who understands the general objectives of a conspiratorial scheme and agrees to do its part to further those objectives is liable as a conspirator. Id. ¶ 13 Because a conspiracy…

  4. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · February 24, 2020 · in the opinion

    Latiolais v. Huntington Ingalls, Incorporated (2020)

    …prosecution." This reading is also unpersuasive. To start, the canon against surplusage yields to context as it expresses courts' "general \reluctan\[ce\] to treat statutory terms as surplusage.'" Bd. of Trs. of Leland Stanford Junior Univ…

  5. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit · August 28, 1995 · in the opinion

    Consorti v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1995)

    …s fees to fight asbestos litigation cases." The district court ruled that any well-informed citizen could possess general knowledge about Johns-Manville and that the report from the juror was not prejudicial to the defendants…

  6. Court case · Washington Court of Appeals · August 24, 2009 · in the opinion

    Cashman v. Pacific Scientific Company (2009)

    …was presumptively a part of furnace insulation during the 1960s and 1970s. He testified, "My experience and the general understanding is that while there may have been Marigold ceramics, other options available, as there are today…

  7. Court case · Pennsylvania Supreme Court · July 21, 2010 · in the opinion

    Summers v. Certainteed Corp. (2010)

    …breath. In so finding, Dr. Gelfand noted that, while the obstructive lung condition due to smoking showed "some improvement," in general, the reduction in lung diffusion remained severe. See Report of Dr. Gelfand concerning Frederick Summers…

  8. Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania · September 11, 1986 · in the opinion

    Vigiolto v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1986)

    …Applicable Law. We begin with the proposition that in a tort action, as a general rule, proof that a [\1457] specific defendant caused the plaintiff's harm is a prerequisite to that defendant's liability to…

  9. Court case · Illinois Appellate Court · February 13, 1986 · in the opinion

    Zupan v. Industrial Com. (1986)

    …term \Occupational Disease' means a disease arising out of and in the course of employment. Ordinary diseases of life to which the general public is exposed outside of the employment shall not be compensable \ \ \." (Ill. Rev…

  10. Court case · New York Supreme Court · December 22, 2017 · in the opinion

    Appleton v. Allied Signal (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation, 2017)

    …Mass toxic tort cases, including asbestos cases, may be consolidated if they meet the requirements of the general rule governing consolidation of cases (In re Asbestos Litigation, 173 F.R.D.81, 38 Fed.R.Serv…

  11. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · December 15, 1988 · in the opinion

    Whatley v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1988)

    …474 (5th Cir.1985); see Shipp v. General Motors Corp., 750 F.2d 418, 425 (5th Cir.1985) (Duncan placed the allocative burden of comparative causation on the defendant). Sufficiency of the Evidence Whatley contends that…

  12. Court case · North Carolina Court of Appeals · July 16, 2002 · in the opinion

    Robbins v. Wake County Bd. of Educ. (2002)

    …a greater risk for contracting mesothelioma than the public generally, and that mesothelioma is not an ordinary disease of life to which the general public is equally exposed. Defendant appeals. Defendant argues on appeal that the…

  13. Court case · California Court of Appeal · May 3, 2012 · in the opinion

    Haver v. BNSF Railroad Co. (2012)

    …as a result of occupational exposure to asbestos products manufactured by the defendants. The action ended in a general verdict for the defendants. The wrongful death action brought by Evans's heirs also alleged that Evans…

  14. Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · October 19, 2016 · in the opinion

    Holzworth v. Alfa Laval Inc. (2016)

    …14-650:11, Aug. 8, 2012). He also swept up the debris from the heater, although he acknowledged it was mixed with the general mess from the fire. (See id. 650:3-11, Aug. 8, 2012)…

  15. Court case · Wisconsin Court of Appeals · July 3, 2012 · in the opinion

    Calewarts v. CR Meyer and Sons Company (2012)

    …85 N.W.2d 772 (1957). As a general rule, an owner "is deemed to have constructive notice of a defect or unsafe condition when that defect or condition has existed a long enough time for…

  16. Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · October 5, 1981 · in the opinion

    White v. Johns-Manville Corp. (1981)

    …admiralty jurisdiction and rejected claims under the Extension of Admiralty Act, 46 U.S.C. § 740, or the general maritime law, 28 U.S.C. § 1333, because the alleged injuries bore no reasonable relationship to traditional…

  17. Court case · U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina · July 16, 2019 · in the opinion

    Zurich American Ins. Co. v. Covil Corporation EX rel. Protopapas (2019)

    …P. 12(b)(7)). The decision under Rule 19(a) has to be made in terms of the general policies of avoiding multiple litigation, providing the parties with complete and effective relief in a single action…

  18. Court case · New York Supreme Court · February 7, 2014 · in the opinion

    Golden v. Alliance Laundry Sys. (2014)

    …Q. In the area in which you were present when they were applying the Kaylo, whose sleeping quarters was that work being performed in? A. In the — our sleeping quarters, the general seamen. . . . Q. Okay. What…

  19. Court case · U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington · May 6, 2014 · in the opinion

    McMann v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (2014)

    …In this way, the statute "promotes litigating federal defenses in a federal forum so that \the operations of the general government \[are not\] arrested at the will of one of \[the states\]." Ruppel v. CBS Corp…

  20. Court case · Virginia Supreme Court · January 10, 2013 · in the opinion

    Exxon Mobil Corporation v. Minton (2013)

    …Scindia, 451 U.S. at 167. Exxon argues that there was no active involvement because its supervision did not extend beyond general oversight. Using the language of the court in Dow v. Oldendorff Carriers GMBH & Co.…