Cases

*617OPINION By the Court, Cherry, C.J.: In this appeal, we examine the causation tests that courts have implemented when a plaintiffs or decedent’s mesothelioma is alleged to have been caused by exposure to a defendant’s asbestos-containing products. We take a balanced approach to find a causation test that is not overly rigorous or t

ROBERT J. JONKER, CHIEF UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE I. INTRODUCTION This case addresses responsibility under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 ("CERCLA") for clean up of the Kalamazoo River and Portage Creek in Southwest Michigan among four parties: Georgia Pacific, International Paper, and Weyerhaeuser, all paper companies with mills on the river-and

MEMORANDUM *** This matter is before us for the second time, following our limited remand to the district court to provide reasons for rejecting the defendants’ laches argument. In our previous Memorandum, we otherwise affirmed the district court’s July 27, 2005 decision denying defendants’ motion for summary judgment on statute of limitations grounds and dismissing state claims as preempted by ERISA. We als

MEMORANDUM *** This matter is before us for the second time, following our limited remand to the district court to provide reasons for rejecting the defendants’ laches argument. In our previous Memorandum, we otherwise affirmed the district court’s July 27, 2005 decision denying defendants’ motion for summary judgment on statute of limitations grounds and dismissing state claims as preempted by ERISA. We als

Ruling on Motions to Compel THOMAS P. SMITH, United States Magistrate Judge. This action arises out of injuries sustained by the plaintiff when he fell through a roof of a Texas Roadhouse restaurant while it was under construction. Pending before the court are several motions to compel discovery responses. (Dkts. ## 167,168,169). *58

MEMORANDUM ** Georgia-Pacific Corporation (“Georgia-Pacific”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Neis Johnson (“Johnson”). Johnson cross-appeals the district court’s denial of statutory penalties. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291. We affirm the district court’s determination that the applicable pension plan entitles Johnson to credit for his years of servi

OPINION AND ORDER ROBERT J. JONKER, District Judge. Georgia Pacific (“GP”) claims that NCR Corporation (“NCR”), International Paper Company (“IP”), and Weyerhaeuser Company (“Weyerhaeuser”) are liable under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (“CERCLA”), 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq., for the costs of investigating and

T.G. NELSON, Circuit Judge. Bruce W. Christensen appeals the district court’s order granting Appellees’ summary judgment motions. Christensen is a longshoreman who was injured while helping to retie a ship that had broken free from the dock. Christensen filed negligence claims against the ship, a second ship that had been tied to the same cleat on the dock, and the dock owner. The district court held that, as a matter of law

944 F.Supp. 497 (1996) Joshua LEE, Plaintiff, v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, Defendant. Civil Action No. 3:94-cv-711WS. United States District Court, S.D. Mississippi, Jackson Division. March 12, 1996. *498 Firnist J. Alexander, Jr., Jackson, MS, for Joshua Lee. Jeffrey A. Walker, Daniel P. Jordan, III, Butler, Snow, O'Ma

960 F.Supp. 298 (1996) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Plaintiff, v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, Defendant. Civil Action No. 1:96-CV-1818-FMH. United States District Court, N.D. Georgia, Atlanta Division. December 23, 1996. Daniel Caldwell, III, Office of U.S. Attorney, Atlanta, GA, Jon A. Mueller & Dianne Shawley, U.S. Department of Justice, Land and Natural Resourc

Appeal No. 13897 from Judgment dated May 2, 1991, James C. Sumner, Ruling Judge, Winston County Circuit Court. Before DAN M. LEE, P.J., and SULLIVAN and BANKS, JJ. Affirmed.

349 S.C. 251 (2002) 562 S.E.2d 633 CONCERNED DUNES WEST RESIDENTS, INC., Ruthann Epstein, Sue Hensch, Mary Eckbreth, Keith Grybowski, Larry Schellenberger, Jeff Zimmer, Ronald Fulcher, and David Fulton, individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, Dunes West Property Owners' Association, Inc., and Allan Feker d/b/a U.S. Residential Golf Properties, Inc., a Florid

WRIT DENIED. Upon a review of the record before us, the exercise of this court’s supervisory jurisdiction is not warranted. Due to the unique nature of videotaped surveillance, this evidence is subject to discovery even though intended for impeachment purposes. Collins v. Crosby Group, Inc., 551 So.2d 42 (La.App. 1st Cir.1989), writs denied, 556 So.2d 39 (La.1990) and 556 So.2d 42 (La.1990).

374 F.Supp. 1076 (1974) GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. WHDH CORPORATION, Defendant. Civ. No. 2016 N.D. United States District Court, D. Maine, N. D. May 1, 1974. *1077 Donald W. Perkins, Daniel E. Boxer, Jotham D. Pierce, Jr., Portland, Me., for plaintiff. Theodore H. Kurtz, South Paris, Me., J. Owen Todd, Bost

Wright, J., dissenting. This case, while seemingly complex, should turn on a single narrow issue. That issue is whether the same parties who litigated different causes of action in federal court wherein particular issues of fact were necessarily adjudicated are precluded from relitigating those same issues of fact in state court under different legal theories. I It is clear to me that the a

Wood, Chief Judge. *931Oligopolies have always posed problems for conventional antitrust law: without something that can be called an agreement, they elude scrutiny under section 1 of the Sherman Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1, and yet no

361 F.Supp.2d 1317 (2004) Roland H. BICKLEY, on behalf of Georgia Pacific Corporation Life Health and Accident Plan, and all other similarly situated Plans, Plaintiff, v. CAREMARK RX, INC., and Caremark, Inc. Defendants. No. CV-02-HS-2197-S. United States District Court, N.D. Alabama, Southern Division. December 30, 2004. *1318 <

WYNN, Circuit Judge, dissenting. In 1983 and 1984, Georgia Power Company (“Georgia Power”) sold Ward Transformer Company (“Ward Transformer”) over one hundred electrical transformers at “scrapping” auctions. The used transformers were in various stages of disrepair and contained varying amounts of oil tainted with polychlorinated biphenyls (“PCBs”) — potent human carcinogens “linked to skin cancer, liver cance

*173 KEITH, Circuit Judge. The United Paperworkers International Union Local 1206 (“Union”) appeals from an order of the district court granting summary judgment for Georgia-Pacific Corporation (“Georgia-Pacific”), Gypsum Division. The district court held tha

562 A.2d 672 (1989) GEORGIA-PACIFIC CORPORATION v. STATE TAX ASSESSOR. Supreme Judicial Court of Maine. Argued March 9, 1989. Decided July 25, 1989. *673 James G. Good, Daniel W. Emery (orally), Pierce, Atwood, Scribner, Allen, Smith & Lancaster, Portland, for plaintiff. James E. Tierney, Atty. Gen., Crombie J.D. Garre