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AUSTIN v. UNARCO INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 82-1168.

705 F.2d 1 (1983)

Margaret AUSTIN, etc., Plaintiff, Appellant, v. UNARCO INDUSTRIES, INC., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 30, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick N. McTeague, Brunswick, Me., with whom G. William Higbee, Maurice A. Libner, Thomas R. Watson, McTeague, Higbee, Libner, Reitman & Priest, Brunswick, Me., Thomas W. Henderson, and Baskin & Sears, Pittsburgh, Pa., were on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

Thomas R. McNaboe, Portland, Me., with whom Mark G. Furey, and Thompson, Willard & McNaboe, Portland, Me., were on brief, for Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.

Peter W. Culley, Stephen C. Whiting, and Hewes, Culley, Feehan & Beals, Portland, Me., on brief, for Unarco Industries, Inc.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

Factual and Procedural Background

This is an appeal of one segment of a complex collection of complaints by victims of asbestos-related cancer and their survivors against producers and suppliers of asbestos products used at Bath Iron Works from the mid 1950's until the early 1970's. Plaintiff's decedent, Blaine Austin, was employed at Bath Iron Works (BIW) from 1952 through the fall of...

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