Legal Opinion
Byers v. Lincoln Electric Co.
District Court, N.D. Ohio
Decided March 20, 2009No. Case 1:04-CV-17033PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM & ORDER
KATHLEEN McDONALD O’MALLEY, District Judge.
This case is one of the approximately 2,600 pending cases that are a part of the Multi-District Litigation known as In re Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1535. As with all of the Welding Fume cases, the plaintiff in this case, Eddie Byers, is a welder who claims: (1) he inhaled fumes given off by welding rods; (2) these fumes contained manganese; (3) this manganese caused him permanent neurological injury and other harm; and (4) the defendants knew or should have known that the use of welding rods would cause…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1970
- Klaxon Co. v. Stentor Electric Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1941
- Phillips Petroleum Co. v. ShuttsSupreme Court of the United States · 1985
- In Re American Medical Systems, Inc. Pfizer, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1996
- Rutherford v. Owens-Illinois, Inc.California Supreme Court · 1997
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- Marye Wahl v. General Electric Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2015
- Cooley v. Lincoln Electric Co.District Court, N.D. Ohio · 2011
- In re Fresenius Granuflo/Naturalyte Dialysate Products Liability LitigationDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 2015
- Wahl v. General Electric Co.District Court, M.D. Tennessee · 2013
- Hale v. Enerco Group, Inc.District Court, N.D. Ohio · 2012
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