CIMINO v. RAYMARK INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. B-86-0456-CA.

751 F.Supp. 649 (1990)

Claude CIMINO, et al. v. RAYMARK INDUSTRIES, INC., et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Texas, Beaumont Division.

November 12, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Umphrey, Diane Dwight, Greg Thompson, Ken Bailey, Bob Monk, Brent Coon, Chip Ferguson, Tim Ferguson, Jim Mehaffy, Thomas Thomas, Charles Carver, David Brandom, Frank Lamson, Ronald Plessala, Gerald Eddins, James Morris, Nick Palmarozzi and Paul Ferguson, Umphrey, Eddins & Carver, Wayne Reaud, Glenn Morgan, Chris Quinn, Joe Blanks, Richard Clarkson, Alto V. Watson, III, Reaud, Morgan & Quinn, Beaumont, Tex., Ron Motley, Joe Rice, Jackie Rion, Tim Eble, Motley, Loadholt, Richardson & Poole, Charleston, S.C., Roxie A. Huffman, Orange, Tex., for Claude Cimino, et al.

Elizabeth Thompson, Robert Arredondo, Randa Duncan and Jeffrey Mundy, Butler & Binion, Houston, Tex., for Celotex Corp.

Robert S. Daggett, Gary Fergus, James Miller, Bill Levin and Michael Stanley, Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, San Francisco, Cal., Lyn Stevens, Weller, Wheelus & Green, Beaumont, Tex., Robert Fanning and Phil Brown, Fanning, Harper & Martinson, Dallas, Tex., for Fibreboard.

Michael Baker, Strong, Pipkin, Nelson & Bissell, Beaumont, Tex., for ACL.

Henry Garrard, John Suthers and Bill Harvard, Blasingame, Burch, Garrard & Bryant, PC, Athens, Ga., for Pittsburgh-Corning.


OPINION AND ORDER

ROBERT M. PARKER, Chief Judge.

The odyssey of asbestos litigation in the Eastern District of Texas has now entered its third decade. The trek started by Clarence Borel and Claude Tomplait has been marked by aimless wandering through the legal wilderness. The journey has taken its predicted toll. Raymark, Forty-Eight Insulations, Unarco, Standard Asbestos, Johns-Manville, Eagle-Picher, and now...

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