Legal Opinion
Douglas Leite v. Crane Company
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 25, 2014No. 12-16864, 12-16982PublishedCited by 1,258 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WATFORD, Circuit Judge:
The plaintiffs in these consolidated appeals, Douglas Leite and David Thompson, worked as machinists at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard in Hawaii, where they were allegedly injured by exposure to asbestos. They sued defendants under state tort law on the theory that defendants failed to warn them of the hazards posed by asbestos used in and around equipment that defendants sold to the United States Navy. (We focus here on only one of the defendants, Crane Co., because it alone filed a brief on appeal.)
Plaintiffs filed separate lawsuits against Crane in state…
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