BARLIEB v. TURNER & NEWALL, LTD.

Civ. A. Nos. 78-1027, 78-1041, 78-1117, 78-1987, 78-2023, 78-3046, 79-1523, 79-4339 and 79-4340.

588 F.Supp. 473 (1980)

James H. BARLIEB & Millie Barlieb, h/w v. TURNER & NEWALL, LTD., et al. John McFADDEN & Elizabeth McFadden v. TURNER & NEWALL, LTD., et al. Emilio E. CARDAMONE & Antoinette Cardamone, h/w v. TURNER & NEWALL, LTD., et al. Anthony GIRADI & Lucy Marie Giradi, h/w v. TURNER & NEWALL, LTD., et al. Victoria C. AMENTO, Administratrix of the Estate of Joseph Amento, Deceased v. TURNER & NEWALL, LTD., et al. Louis GRABOWSKI & Helen Grabowski h/w v. TURNER & NEWALL, LTD., et al. Albert SAYLOR, et al. v. TURNER & NEWALL, LTD. Margo Maggie L. GRAVATT, Adm. of the Estate of Clifford Henry Gravatt, Jr., Deceased v. JOHNS-MANVILLE CORP., et al. Modesta C. MARINCOLA, Adm. of the Estate of Paul G. Marincola, Deceased v. JOHNS-MANVILLE CORP., et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania.

November 26, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Rubin, Hamburg, Rubin, Mullin & Maxwell, Lansdale, Pa., Thomas J. Mullaney, Jr., Philip D. Weiss, Norristown, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Swartz, Campbell & Detweiler, Philadelphia, Pa., for Certain Teed Corp.

Patrick T. Ryan, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia, Pa., for Cassiar Asbestos Corp. Ltd.

Edward Greer, Philip H. Rush, Philadelphia, Pa., for GAF Corp.

John P. Mason, Philadelphia, Pa., for Turner & Newall, Ltd.

Kaliner & Joseph, Edward B. Joseph, Philadelphia, Pa., for Asbestos Corp., Ltd.

Francis E. Marshall, Philadelphia, Pa., for Canadian Johns-Manville Asbestos Ltd., Canadian Johns-Manville Co. Ltd. and Johns-Manville Sales Corp.

Theodore W. Flowers, Richard M. Jordan, White & Williams, Philadelphia, Pa., for Huxley Development Corp.

Anthony S. Minisi, Richard E. Levine, Wolf, Block, Schorr & Solis-Cohen, Philadelphia, Pa., for North American Asbestos Corp.

Cozen, Begier & O'Connor, Joseph A. Gerber, Philadelphia, Pa., for Lake Asbestos of Quebec.

Harvey, Pennington, Herting & Renneisen, G. Wayne Renneisen, Philadelphia, Pa., for Carey-Canadian Mines, Ltd.

Joan K. Garner, Asst. U.S. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., Peter A. Nowinski, Trial Atty., Torts Branch, Civ. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S.

Post & Schell, Robert M. Britton, Philadelphia, Pa., for Bell Asbestos Mines, Ltd.

McWilliams & Sweeney, Donald J.P. Sweeney, Philadelphia, Pa., for Special Asbestos Co., Inc.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

NEWCOMER, District Judge.

These cases have been consolidated for purposes of ruling on motions made by defendant United States, to dismiss or, in the alternative, to sever.1

Defendant United States moves, pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(1) and (6), for dismissal of cross-claims against it asserted by defendants who allegedly supplied asbestos to an asbestos cement pipe manufacturing plant in Ambler...

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