Legal Opinion
Bobo v. Tennessee Valley Authority
District Court, N.D. Alabama
Decided September 29, 2015No. Civil Action No. CV 12-S-1930-NEPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
C. Lynwood Smith, Jr., United States District Judge
Barbara Bobo, now deceased, commenced this action during her lifetime. The gravamen of her complaint was that she suffered from malignant pleural mesotheli-oma as a result of being “wrongfully exposed” to airborne asbestos fibers, “an inherently dangerous toxic substance.”1 She alleged that the fibers came from the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (“TVA”) on the north shore of the Tennessee River near Athens, in Limestone County, Alabama. Mrs. Bobo, however, had never been inside the…
2Cases cited79 opinions
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Melissa Ann Bobo v. Tennessee Valley AuthorityCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2017
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