Legal Opinion
Copeland v. Celotex Corp.
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided March 6, 1984No. 81-997PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
447 So.2d 908 (1984)
Lee Loyd COPELAND and Vaudeen Copeland, Appellants,
v.
The CELOTEX CORPORATION, Appellee.
No. 81-997.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
March 6, 1984.
Robles and Robles and Brian Weinstein, Miami, for appellants.
Shackleford, Farrior, Stallings & Evans and Clark Jordan-Holmes, Tampa, for appellee.
Before NESBITT, FERGUSON and JORGENSON, JJ.
JORGENSON, Judge.
This and Copeland v. Armstrong Cork Co., 447 So.2d 922 (Fla. 3d DCA 1984), released this same day, are cases of first impression in Florida involving difficult questions of causation in asbestos-related…
2Cases cited34 opinions
- Urie v. ThompsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
- Hoffman v. JonesSupreme Court of Florida · 1973
- Clarence Borel v. Fibreboard Paper Products Corporation, Nationalsurety Corporation, Intervenor-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1973
- Summers v. TiceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1948
- Payton v. Abbott LabsMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1982
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3Cited by21 opinions
- In Re "Agent Orange" Product Liability LitigationDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1984
- Johns-Manville Sales Corp. v. JanssensDistrict Court of Appeal of Florida · 1984
- Celotex Corp. v. CopelandSupreme Court of Florida · 1985
- Case v. Fibreboard Corp.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1987
- Lockwood v. a C & S, Inc.Court of Appeals of Washington · 1986
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