Legal Opinion
Asbury v. A.W. Chesterton Company
Superior Court of Rhode Island
Decided March 29, 2010No. C.A. No. PC 07-2351Published
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION
Before this Court are Defendant Union Carbide Corporation's ("Defendant") Motion To Dismiss for Forum Non Conveniens and a Motion To Apply Foreign Law made by Defendant and several other joining Defendants (collectively "Defendants").1 Jurisdiction is pursuant to G.L. 1956 § 8-2-14.
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Facts and Travel
Carlie Asbury ("Ms. Asbury") is a sixty-three year old woman who was diagnosed with mesothelioma in March 2006. She was born in Iowa in 1947, where she remained until moving to Colorado in 1969. Ms. Asbury and her husband, Thomas Asbury, (collectively "Plaintiffs"), married in Colorado in…
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- Phillips Petroleum Co. v. ShuttsSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- American Dredging Co. v. MillerSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
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