Legal Opinion
Tioga Public School District 15 of Williams County, State of North Dakota v. United States Gypsum Company
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 11, 1993No. 90-5447PublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
United States Gypsum Co. (USG) appeals from a final judgment entered in the District Court upon a jury verdict in favor of Tioga Public School District No. 15 (Tioga). For the reasons set forth below, we reverse the judgment of the District Court and remand the case for a new trial.
I
During the 1950s and 1960s, USG manufactured an acoustical plaster known as Audicote that contained asbestos. Tioga constructed two of the three schools that it currently operates between 1957 and 1961. Tioga specified that plaster be used on the ceilings of the two schools, and the architect…
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