United States Eleventh Circuit

In suit under Federal Employers' Liability Act against employer for injury from asbestos exposure, partial summary judgment was proper on claims for emotional distress damages based on fear of contracting cancer, where plaintiffs made no showing of any objective manifestations of their emotional distress.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/11/2002
• Published 04/11/2002

Judges

• PER CURIAM:, Before TJOFLAT and COX, Circuit Judges, and HANCOCK , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mark Joseph Bujold,Lane & Gossett, P.C., Brunswick, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants., Mary Helen Moses, Randall Athley Jordan, Steven P. Bristol, Jordan, Bristol & Moses, St. Simons, GA, for CSX Corp., Richard B. North, Jr., Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Amicus Curiae, Ass'n of Am. Railroads.