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FULGIUM v. ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES, INC.

Civ. A. Nos. 82-2605, 85-1192.

645 F.Supp. 761 (1986)

Bobby FULGIUM et ux. v. ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES, INC. et al. Richard I. JOHNSON et ux. v. ARMSTRONG WORLD INDUSTRIES, INC. et al.

United States District Court, W.D. Louisiana, Shreveport Division.

October 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fred Baron, Janice E. Robinson, Baron & Bud, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Thomas Bergstedt and Richard Perles, Scofield, Bergstedt, Gerard, Mount & Veron, Lake Charles, La., for Fibreboard Corp., The Celotex Corp., Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., Keene Corp., Pittsburg-Corning, Owens-Illinois, Inc., Armstrong World Industries, Inc., Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., H.K. Porter Co., Inc., Union Carbide Corp. and Carey Candian Mines, Ltd.

Maury Hicks, Hicks & Bookter, Shreveport, La., and Mary H. Thompson, Baton Rouge, La., for Nicolet, Inc. (successor to Keasbey-Mattison Corp.).

Linda S. Harang, J. Michael Johnson, McGlinchey, Stafford, Mintz, Cellini & Lang, New Orleans, La., for Crown Cork and Seal Co., Inc. (successor to Mundet Cork Co.).

MEMORANDUM RULING

STAGG, Chief Judge.

These are product liability cases in which the plaintiffs seek recovery for damages allegedly caused by their exposure to asbestos-containing products. In addition to the misfortune of being asbestos workers for a number of years, these plaintiffs are afflicted with the vice of cigarette smoking. The defendants seek to introduce evidence of plaintiffs' smoking habits and to have the jury instructed on the doctrine of...

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