Legal Opinion · Dissent

Betty Adams, Joseph Adams v. Union Carbide Corporation

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided July 2, 1984No. 83-3239Published

1DissentWeick, Senior Circuit Judge

I respectfully dissent. The district court erred in granting summary judgment in favor of defendant-appellee Union Carbide Corporation and dismissing the complaint of plaintiff-appellant Betty Adams, thereby depriving her of her right to trial by jury to which she was justly entitled.

In her complaint, Mrs. Adams had alleged that defendant Union Carbide Corporation was negligent in failing and neglecting to warn her of the harmful, toxic and deleterious effects of her exposure to the poisonous fumes of toluene diisocyanate (TDI) which it manufactured and supplied to her employer, General…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
  2. West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1940
  3. Bryant v. Technical Research Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1981
  4. Shell Oil Co. v. GutierrezCourt of Appeals of Arizona · 1978
  5. Mrs. Ivy L. Gordon v. Niagara MacHine & Tool WorksCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1978

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