Parties Debate Summary Judgment In Wake Of DeVries Asbestos Opinion

(May 3, 2019, 2:36 PM EDT) -- TACOMA, Wash. — The need for summary judgment in a case in which a man testified that additional warnings would not have changed his conduct was not eased by recent a Supreme Court ruling rejecting the bare-metal defense in maritime settings, defendants argue in a May 2 brief.  In her own May 2 brief, the plaintiff tells the court that experts will link the defendants’ products to her husband’s mesothelioma (Yaw, et al. v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., et al., No. 18-5405, W.D. Wash.)....

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