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LIVELY v. U.S.

Nos. 88-3334, 88-3354.

870 F.2d 296 (1989)

Thomas Wallace LIVELY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee. John WILLIAMS, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 18, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George R. Covert, Owen M. Goudelocke, Covert & Braud, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Leslie Yu, David S. Fishback, Asst. U.S. Attys., Torts Branch, Civil Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., Stanford O. Bardwell, Jr., P. Raymond Lamonica, U.S. Attys., Baton Rouge, La., for defendant-appellee.

Before THORNBERRY, GEE, and POLITZ, Circuit Judges.

GEE, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs in these actions were employed as Longshoremen working on the docks of the Baton Rouge Port Commission in Port Allen, Louisiana. During the period from 1959 through 1966 they were exposed to raw asbestos, which they helped to unload from ships traveling from South Africa. The asbestos was imported for stockpiling by the General Services Administration (G.S.A.) pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Act (The Act...

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