13 results for “General Electric”
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama · August 30, 2013
Morgan v. Bill Vann Company, Inc. (2013)
The court granted General Electric's motion for summary judgment and dismissed the plaintiff's claims against GE with prejudice, finding the pre-1979 exposure claims time-barred and no sufficient evidence of later exposure to…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama · May 18, 2023
Craig v. AW Chesterton Co. (2023)
Gloria Craig has mesothelioma. She sued many companies in Alabama state court, alleging she breathed asbestos that her ex-husband brought home on his clothes from his work as a pipefitter at Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding in Mobile in the 1970s…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama · January 28, 2010 · in the opinion
Corley v. Long-Lewis, Inc. (2010)
…Elliot Turbomachinery Co., 545 F.Supp.2d 1266, 1273 (S.D.Fla.2008) (citing Nesbiet v. General Electric Co., 399 F.Supp.2d 205, 212 (S.D.N.Y.2005)). Although these arguments may undermine the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama · September 29, 2015 · in the opinion
Bobo v. Tennessee Valley Authority (2015)
…also was the first nuclear plant to generate more than one billion watts of electric power.\[30\] The plant's three operating units are General Electric boiling water reactors. They produce electricity by splitting uranium atoms…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama · June 22, 2015 · in the opinion
Bobo v. Tennessee Valley Authority (2015)
…units are General Electric boiling water reactors. They produce electricity by splitting uranium atoms, and the heat generated by that process boils water, producing steam that is piped to turbines, which spin generators to produce electricity.…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Southern District of Alabama · August 30, 2013 · in the opinion
Morgan v. Bill Vann Company, Inc. (2013)
…other defendants after May 19, 1979. But applicable law imposes on plaintiff the burden of proving exposure to each particular defendant's products, not just proving exposure to asbestos in general. See, e.g., Hoffman v…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama · October 29, 2013 · in the opinion
Bobo v. Agco Corp. (2013)
…\[and\] ... an implied restriction of the general authority is necessary to avoid grave interference with the performance of a governmental function, or that for other reasons it was plainly the purpose of Congress to use the…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama · October 28, 2013 · in the opinion
Bobo v. Agco Corporation (2013)
….. an implied restriction of the general authority is necessary to avoid grave interference with the performance of a governmental function, or that for other reasons it was plainly the purpose of Congress to use the \sue…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama · August 25, 2014 · in the opinion
Bobo v. Tennessee Valley Authority (2014)
…Mrs. Bobo's contraction of pleural mesothelioma from laundering her husband's work clothes, purportedly containing asbestos dust originating from his job duties at TVA's Browns Ferry Nuclear power general facility in Limestone County, Alabama…
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Court case · Alabama Supreme Court · December 13, 2002 · in the opinion
Southern Bakeries, Inc. v. Knipp (2002)
…Id. In connection with that payment, State Farm obtained from Spooner a "general release." Id. In subsequent discussions with State Farm's claims adjuster, Spooner learned for the first time that the document she had signed…
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Court case · U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit · April 26, 2017 · in the opinion
Bobo v. Tennessee Valley Authority (2017)
…AL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees. James S. Chase, Edward C. Meade, Edwin Warren Small, Tennessee Valley Authority, Office of General Counsel, KNOXVILLE, TN, for Defendant-Appellant. Before ED CARNES, Chief Judge, JORDAN, Circuit Judge, and LAMBERTH,\[\\] District…
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Court case · U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama · March 24, 2016 · in the opinion
Holland v. Airco, Inc. (2016)
…Judge Robreno because regardless of what causation standard applies, it is a general principle of Alabama tort law that the plaintiff bears the burden of submitting evidence proving that the defendant caused his injuries. See Turner…
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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…