Legal Opinion
In Re BROOKLYN NAVY YARD ASBESTOS LITIGATION (Joint Eastern and Southern District Asbestos Litigation)
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 30, 1992No. 1197, Docket 91-9325(L)PublishedCited by 190 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Chief Judge:
BACKGROUND
From the 1930’s through 1966, thousands of workers at the New York Naval Shipyard, commonly known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard (BNY), breathed air laden with carcinogenic asbestos fibers. Manufacturers of the asbestos-containing products used at BNY did not warn users of the hazards posed by asbestos dust. Nor did the Navy warn its workers of those hazards, despite its own knowledge of the danger of asbestos. Decades after exposure, many of these workers found themselves with asbestos-related injuries — lung cancer, colon cancer, mesothelioma, laryngeal cancer,…
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