WISNIEWSKI, Susan and Klock, Debra Wisniewski, Appellants,
v.
JOHNS-MANVILLE CORP., Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., Owens-Illinois, Inc., Celotex Corporation, Keene Corporation, Unarco Industries, Inc.
v.
EAGLE-PICHER INDUSTRIES, INC., Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation.
Janet M. RICE, as parent and natural guardian of Valerie D. Rice and Thomas W. Rice, Janet M. Rice, in her own right and Paul A. Rice, Appellants,
v.
JOHNS-MANVILLE CORP., Johns-Manville Sales Corporation, Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc., Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Owens-Illinois, Inc., Celotex Corporation, Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., Amatex Corporation, Unarco Industries, Inc., Fibreboard Corporation, Southern Textile Corp., H.K. Porter Co., Inc., Porter Hayden Co., Abex Corporation, Maremont Corporation, Lear Siegler, Inc., Bendix Corporation, J.P. Stevens, Inc., Uniroyal, Inc., Union Carbide Corporation, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, General Motors Corporation.
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Submitted March 29, 1985.
Decided April 11, 1985.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Norman Perlberger, Mitchell S. Cohen, James R. Kahn, Blank, Rome, Comisky & McCauley, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellants.
Michael J. Plevyak, Andrew J. Trevelise, Malcolm & Riley, West Chester, Pa., for appellee, Celotex Corp.
Robert S. Forster, Jr., Krusen, Evans & Byrne, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.
Barbara Pennell, Joseph R. Thompson, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, Eagle-Picher, Industries, Inc.
Oliver C. Biddle, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.
James A. Young, Daniel J. Zucker, Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, Owens-Illinois, Inc.
Howard M. Girsh, Steinberg & Girsh, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, Union Carbide Corp.
Clayton H. Thomas, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, Abex Corp.
Joseph H. Foster, White & Williams, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, Southern Textile Corp.
Dudley Hughes, Detweiler, Hughes & Kokonos, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, Unarco Industries, Inc.
Walter S. Jenkins, McWilliams & Sweeney, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, Maremont Corp.
Audrey J. Becker, David E. Prewitt, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, Porter Hayden Co.
Perry S. Bechtle, LaBrum & Doak, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, Keene Corp.
Charles W. Craven, Jo Fineman White, Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellees, Johns-Manville Corp. and Johns-Manville Sales Corp.
Alan Klein, Drinker, Biddle & Reath, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellees, Uniroyal, Inc. and Georgia-Pacific Corp.
Edward R. Paul, Nilon, Paul & Mardinly, Media, Pa., for appellee, Lear Siegler, Inc.
George J. Lavin, Jr., Liebert, Short, FitzPatrick & Lavin, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, General Motors Corp.
G. Wayne Renneisen, George A. Amacker, Harvey, Pennington, Herting & Renneisen, Ltd., Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee, Bendix Corp.
Before ALDISERT, Chief Judge, GIBBONS and WEIS, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Submitted Under Third Circuit Rule 12(6), March 29, 1985.
OPINION OF THE COURT
ALDISERT, Chief Judge.
This diversity case requires us to predict what the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania would decide if faced with claims brought by relatives of asbestos workers for negligent infliction and intentional infliction of emotional distress caused by the illness and subsequent deaths of the workers. The district court held that, under Pennsylvania law, appellants...
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