Legal Opinion
Cimino v. Raymark Industries, Inc.
District Court, E.D. Texas
Decided November 12, 1990No. B-86-0456-CAPublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
ROBERT M. PARKER, Chief Judge.
The odyssey of asbestos litigation in the Eastern District of Texas has now entered its third decade. The trek started by Clarence Borel and Claude Tomplait has been marked by aimless wandering through the legal wilderness. The journey has taken its predicted toll. Raymark, Forty-Eight Insulations, Unarco, Standard Asbestos, Johns-Manville, Eagle-Picher, and now Celotex are bankrupt. Other defendants are clearly in the twilight of their participation. Four hundred and forty-eight members of the class have died waiting for their cases to be heard.…
2Cases cited49 opinions
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- Castaneda v. PartidaSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Hazelwood School District v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Duncan v. Cessna Aircraft Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1984
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Maximo HILAO, Class Plaintiffs, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. ESTATE OF Ferdinand MARCOS, Defendant-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1996
- Claude Cimino v. Raymark Industries, Inc., Pittsburgh Corning Corporation and Asbestos Corporation LimitedCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1998
- Findley v. Blinken (In Re Joint Eastern & Southern District Asbestos Litigation)District Court, S.D. New York · 1991
- In Re Eastern & Southern Districts Asbestos LitigationDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1991
- Central Wesleyan College v. W.R. Grace & Co.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1993
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