Legal Opinion
In Re Joint Eastern & Southern Districts Asbestos Litigation
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 28, 1992No. NYAL-PH-8888PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SIFTON, District Judge.
The two cases treated in this opinion represent what remains of a trial that began with 48 plaintiffs and multiple direct and third-party defendants. This opinion sets forth the basis for the Court’s reduction of the jury verdicts in those two cases to final judgments, which are filed simultaneously with this opinion.
Faced with a torrent of personal injury and wrongful death cases stemming from exposure to asbestos, the Chief Judges of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and of the District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New…
2Cases cited72 opinions
- Feres v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1950
- Weiner v. McGraw-Hill, Inc.New York Court of Appeals · 1982
- Hill v. St. Clare's HospitalNew York Court of Appeals · 1986
- Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 99,479 Samuel Mallis and Franklyn B. Kupferman, Cross-Appellants v. Bankers Trust Company, Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1983
- In Re BROOKLYN NAVY YARD ASBESTOS LITIGATION (Joint Eastern and Southern District Asbestos Litigation)Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1992
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3Cited by19 opinions
- Malcolm v. National Gypsum Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1993
- Angelo v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1993
- In Re New York Asbestos LitigationDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1994
- 38 Fed. R. Evid. Serv. 1213, prod.liab.rep. (Cch) P 13,528 in Re Joint Eastern District and Southern District Asbestos Litigation. Anne McPadden Individually and as of the Estate of Martin McPadden (Deceased) v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. Fibreboard Corporation Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corporation Celotex Corporation Eagle-Picher Industries, Incorporated Gaf Corporation Pittsburgh Corning Corporation H.K. Porter Company, Inc. Owens-Illinois, Incorporated A.P. Green Industries Inc. U.S. Mineral Products Co. A.C. And S. Inc. United States Gypsum Co. National Gypsum Company Babcock & Wilcox Company Combustion Engineering, Inc. Rockwool Manufacturing Co. v. John Crane-Houdaille Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1993
- In re New York Asbestos LitigationDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1993
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