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Title: Gideon v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp.
Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Release Date : January 03, 1985
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 77 KB

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This suit for personal injuries allegedly caused by the inhalation of asbestos fibers is one of 25,000 pending in federal and state courts. After a ten-day trial, the jury returned a verdict against seven of the seventeen defendants originally named and fixed the compensatory damages at $500,100. The judge reduced the amount of the judgment to reflect the effect of the settlement that the plaintiffs had reached with three of the original defendants.