Legal Opinion
Thomas Wallace Lively v. United States of America, John Williams, Jr. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 18, 1989No. 88-3334, 88-3354PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GEE, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs in these actions were employed as Longshoremen working on the docks of the Baton Rouge Port Commission in Port Allen, Louisiana. During the period from 1959 through 1966 they were exposed to raw asbestos, which they helped to unload from ships traveling from South Africa. The asbestos Ivas imported for stockpiling by the General Services Administration (G.S.A.) pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Act (The Act), 50 U.S.C. §§ 98 et seq. The Act authorizes the Secretaries of the Army, Navy & Interior to determine that some materials are of…
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