T.H.S. NORTHSTAR ASSOCIATES, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, a Minnesota Limited Partnership, Plaintiff,
v.
W.R. GRACE & COMPANY, a Connecticut Corporation, Successor in Interest to Western Mineral Products Corporation and Zonolite Company; H & A Construction Corporation, a New York Corporation, Successor in Interest to SprayCraft Corporation, formerly known as Asbestospray Corporation; Keene Corporation, a New York Corporation, Successor in Interest to Baldwin-Hill Company, Baldwin-Ehret-Hill Company and Keene Building Products Corporation; Keene Building Products Corporation, a Delaware Corporation; National Gypsum Company, a Delaware Corporation, Successor in Interest to Gold Bond Building Products Corporation; United States Gypsum Company, a Delaware Corporation; The Celotex Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Successor in Interest to Phillip Carey Mfg. Co., Phillip Carey Corporation, Briggs Mfg. Co., and Panacon Corporation; Carey Canada, Inc., a Canadian Corporation, Successor in Interest to Carey Canadian Mines; Pfizer Genetics, Inc., a Delaware Corporation; Basic, Inc., an Ohio Corporation; Turner & Newall Limited, a foreign Corporation; and United States Mineral Products Company, a New Jersey Corporation, Jointly and Severally, Defendants.
United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Third Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 12, 1991.
June 12, 1991.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Richard A. Saliterman, Saliterman & Alden, Minneapolis, Minn., Michael B. Serling, Michael B. Serling, P.C., Birmingham, Mich., Philip J. Goodman, Thrun, Maatsch & Nordberg, P.C., Lansing, Mich., Floyd E. Siefferman, Jr., Minneapolis, Minn., for T.H.S. Northstar Associates.
Peter Bologna, Murnane, Conlin, White, Brandt & Hoffman, St. Paul, Minn., for Basic, Inc.
Richard N. Jeffries, Thomas Olson, Jeffries, Olson & Flom, P.A., Moorhead, Minn., for the Celotex Corp. and Carey Canada, Inc.
Robert D. Brownson, Lasley, Gaughan, Stich & Angell, P.A., Minneapolis, Minn., for H & A Const. Corp.
David Herr, Maslon, Edelman, Borman & Brand, Minneapolis, Minn., for Keene Corp. and Keene Building Products Corp.
Thomas V. Seifert, Marianne E. Durkin, Head, Hempel, Seifert & Vander Weide, Minneapolis, Minn., for National Gypsum Co.
Thomas H. Shiah, Thomas H. Shiah, Ltd., Minneapolis, Minn., for Pfizer Genetics, Inc.
Robert V. Atmore, Lindquist & Vennum, Minneapolis, Minn., for Turner & Newall PLC.
Sandra Wallace, Zelle & Larson, Minneapolis, Minn., for U.S. Gypsum Co.
Timothy P. Tobin, Gislason, Dosland, Hunter & Malecki, Minnetonka, Minn., for U.S. Mineral Products Co.
John C. Childs, Donald M. Lewis, G. Marc Whitehead, Popham, Haik, Schnobrich & Kaufman, Ltd., Minneapolis, Minn., and Joseph L. Cotter, Margaret R. Hinkle, Goodwin, Proctor & Hoar, Boston, Mass., for W.R. Grace & Co.
United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Third Division.
MEMORANDUM
RENNER, District Judge.
In 1986, plaintiff T.H.S. Northstar Associates ("Northstar") purchased the Northstar Center ("the Center") in downtown Minneapolis. Northstar alleges that the Center is contaminated by asbestos and has brought suit against defendant W.R. Grace & Co.—Conn. ("Grace"),1 a former manufacturer of asbestos-containing products that were applied to portions of the Center during construction...
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