California Court of Appeal

In plaintiffs' products liability suit against defendants for injuries caused by exposure to asbestos-containing products aboard US Navy vessels, trial court's judgment in favor of the plaintiffs is reversed in where: 1) plaintiffs have not shown that defendant manufactured, supplied, or distributed the products which caused his exposure to asbestos; and 2) defendant is not liable in strict liability for failing to warn of the dangerous properties of those products or for a design defect in those products.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/17/2009
• Published 11/17/2009

Judges

• KITCHING, J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Simon, Eddins & Greenstone, Brian P. Barrow, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Gordon & Rees, James G. Scadden, Don Willenburg, San Francisco;  Munger, Tolles & Olson, Mark H. Epstein, Paul J. Watford and Julie D. Cantor, Los Angeles, for Defendant and Appellant Leslie Controls, Inc., Crowell & Moring, Steven P. Rice, William L. Anderson and Natalia R. Medley, Washington, DC, for The Coalition for Justice, Inc. as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant., Walsworth, Franklin, Bevins & McCall, Michael T. McCall, Thomas G. Scully and Sean P. Martin, Orange, for Defendant and Respondent Elliott Company.