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McCARTY v. JOHNS-MANVILLE SALES CORP.

Civ. A. Nos. S79-0316(N), S79-0333(N), J79-0002(N) and S79-0272(N).

502 F.Supp. 335 (1980)

James McCARTY et al., Plaintiffs, v. JOHNS-MANVILLE SALES CORP. et al, Defendants. Roy L. HART et al, Plaintiffs, v. ARMSTRONG CORK CO. et al, Defendants. Lelos WEDGEWORTH et al, Plaintiffs, v. ARMSTRONG CORK CO. et al, Defendants. L. T. CHAPIN et al, Plaintiffs, v. ACANDS, INC. et al, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Mississippi, S. D.

November 21, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Danny E. Cupit, Robert W. Sneed, Cupit & Maxey, Jackson, Miss., Ransom P. Jones, III, F. Gerald Maples, Pascagoula, Miss., Paul S. Minor, Biloxi, Miss., Wm. Roberts Wilson, Jr., B. Rex Gordon, Jr., Pascagoula, Miss., Peter H. Barrett, Gulfport, Miss., R. E. Parker, Varner & Parker, Vicksburg, Miss., Mack Brabham, McComb, Miss., for plaintiffs.

Ernest W. Graves, Laurel, Miss., Robert H. Hood, Charleston, S. C., for Keene Corp.

W. Swan Yerger, Jackson, Miss., for Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.

Natie P. Caraway, Jackson, Miss., for Celotex Corp. and Rock Wool Mfg. Co.

Heber Ladner, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for Unarco Industries, Inc.

Dorrance Aultman, Jon Mark Weathers, Hattiesburg, Miss., for Armstrong Cork Co.

Wade H. Lagrone, Tupelo, Miss., for Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.

Cary E. Bufkin, Jackson, Miss., for Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.

Curtis E. Coker, Jackson, Miss., for Standard Asbestos Mfg. and Insulation Co. and Pittsburgh Corning Corp.

W. F. Goodman, III, Jackson, Miss., for GAF Corp.

Roy C. Williams, Pascagoula, Miss., for Johns-Manville Sales Corp.

Walter W. Eppes, Jr., Meridian, Miss., for H. K. Porter, Inc. and Southern Asbestos Co.

J. Jerry Langford, Jackson, Miss., Rae Bryant, Gulfport, Miss., for Shook and Fletcher Insulation Co. and Flexitallic Gasket Co.

Alben N. Hopkins, Gulfport, Miss., for Selby-Battersby & Co. and Rockwell Intern. Corp.

W. Boyd Reeves, Mobile, Ala., for American Mut. Corp. and American Mut. Liability Ins. Co.

Jeffrey R. King, Vicksburg, Miss., for Flintkote Co.

Ronald G. Peresich, Biloxi, Miss., for Forty-Eight Insulation, Inc. and Darco Southern, Inc.

Louis G. Baine, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for Fibreboard Corp.

Gary D. Sutherland, Hattiesburg, Miss., for Empire Ace Insulation Mfg. Corp.

Michael S. Allred, Jackson, Miss., for Acands, Inc.

Richard L. Forman, Jackson, Miss., for Nicolet, Inc., Owens-Illinois, Inc. and National Gypsum Co.

Thomas W. Tardy, III, Jackson, Miss., for Combustion Engineering, Inc.

M. M. Roberts, Hattiesburg, Miss., for Benjamin Foster Division-Amchem Products, Inc.

Suzanne N. Saunders, Jackson, Miss., for Hopeman Brothers, Inc.

Thomas W. Tyner, Hattiesburg, Miss., for Anchor Packing Co.

L. Arnold Pyle, Jackson, Miss., for Garlock, Inc.

James C. Pittman, Hattiesburg, Miss., for Crane Packing Co.

Karl Wiesenburg, French Caldwell, Pascagoula, Miss., for Litton Systems, Inc.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

WALTER L. NIXON, Jr., District Judge.

The plaintiffs in the pending Mississippi asbestos cases have moved for partial summary judgment based upon the doctrine of collateral estoppel. In their motions, the plaintiffs move the Court to enter partial summary judgment against the defendants on the following issues:

(a) that the defendants be precluded from relitigating the issue of whether or not their products were defective and unreasonably...

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