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RABB v. AMATEX CORP.

Nos. 84-1993, 84-1994.

769 F.2d 996 (1985)

Claude Erwin RABB, Executor of the Estate of Harry W. Rabb, deceased, Appellant, v. AMATEX CORPORATION; Empire Asbestos; the Flintkote Company; National Gypsum Company; Nicolet, Inc.; Rock Wool Manufacturing Company and Standard Asbestos Mfg. & Insulating Co., Defendants, and Armstrong World Industries, Inc.; Armstrong Contract and Supply (AC & S); the Celotex Corporation; Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.; Forty-Eight Insulation, Inc.; Keene Corporation; Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.; H.K. Porter Company/Southern Asbestos; Pittsburgh Corning Corporation and Raymark Industries, Inc., Appellees. In re ASBESTOS RELATED LITIGATION. Claude Erwin RABB, Executor of the Estate of Harry W. Rabb, Appellant, v. AMATEX CORPORATION; Armstrong World Industries, Inc.; Empire Asbestos; the Flintkote Company; National Gypsum Company; Nicolet, Inc.; Pittsburgh Corning Corporation; Rock Wool Manufacturing Company and Standard Asbestos Mfg. & Insulation Co., Defendants, and Armstrong Contract and Supply (AC & S); the Celotex Corporation; Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc.; Keene Corporation; Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp.; H.K. Porter Company/Southern Asbestos and Raymark Industries, Inc., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 12, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vickie Bletso, Greenville, N.C. (Thomas F. Taft, Taft, Taft & Haigler, Greenville, N.C., Joseph F. Rice, Blatt & Fales, Barnwell, S.C., on brief), for appellant.

J. Victor Bowman, Greensboro, N.C. (Gerard H. Davidson, Jr., Timothy Peck, Smith, Moore, Smith, Schell & Hunter, Greensboro, N.C., Richard M. Lewis, Mark S. Thomas, Maupin, Taylor & Ellis, Raleigh, N.C., on brief), for appellees.

Before PHILLIPS and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges, and HIRAM H. WARD, District Judge, Sitting by Designation.

JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

Claude E. Rabb, executor of the estate of Harry W. Rabb, appeals the grant of summary judgment by the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina based upon the court's preclusion of Rabb's critical evidence in his asbestosis-related action for failure to comply with the court's pre-trial order. Because we believe the district court's Pre-trial Order Coordinating Discovery Proceedings violated neither...

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