ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
ASBESTOS CORP. LTD.; Celotex Corp; Asbestos Spray Corp.; U.S. Mineral Products Co.; U.S. Gypsum Co.; Unidentified Parties; Standard Insulations, Inc.; Spray of Lake Co.; Ruberoid Co.; Raymark Ind., Inc.; Raybestos Manhattan; Pfizer, Inc.; Owens Corning; Colbert Lowrey Hess & Boudreaux, Inc.; Nicolet Ind. Inc.; National Gypsum Company; Lake Asbestos of Quebec Co.; Keene Corp.; Hedrick & Hooten, Inc.; H.K. Porter Co., Inc.; Carey Can Mines, Ltd.; Georgia-Pacific Corporation; G.A.F. Corp.; Freret & Wolf, Inc.; Flintkote Co.; Fiberglass Corp.; Fiberboard Corp.; Curtis, Inc.; August Perez & Associates; Edward C. Mathes; Henri M. Favrot; Mathes Bergman Favrot & Associates; Freret and Wolf Architects; Albert J. Wolf, Jr.; James P. Oubre & Associates; Leake Associate Architects; Harold E. Pique; Robert Cummins Associate Architects; Murvan M. Maxwell; J. Buchanan Blitch; Burk & Lamantia Architects, Inc.; Favrot, Reed, Mathes & Bergman; Albert J. Saputo; Parham & Labouisse; Lowrey, Hess, Boudreaux Architects; Maxwell & Lebreton; Anthony J. Gendusa; Edward My Tsoi; Grimball, Grimball, Gorrondona, Kearney & Savoye; Lloyd Rosen; Rock & Galloway Architects; Ernest E. Verges & Associates, Inc.; Lawrence & Saunders; Leake Freret & Wolf; Henry G. Grimball; Sprague & Lamp Associates; Thompson B. Burk & Associates Architects; Armstrong World Industries, Floor Division, Incorporated; Kentile Floors, Inc., Defendants,
and
W.R. Grace & Co., Defendant-Appellee.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
May 22, 1997.
May 22, 1997.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Trevor G. Bryan, Bryan & Jupiter, New Orleans, LA, Meyer H. Gertler, Rodney Paul Vincent, Catherine Baroco Landry, Assoc Atty, Gertler, Gertler & Vincent, New Orleans, LA, for Orleans Parish School Bd.
Mary Lue Dumestre, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, LA, James C. Gulotta, Jr., Phillip A. Wittmann, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, LA, for W. R. Grace & Co.
Martin W. Dies, Orange, TX, Robert B. Watts, Bracewell and Patterson, Houston, TX, Thomas A. Rayer, Denechaud & Denechaud, New Orleans, LA, for The Roman Catholic Church of The Archdiocese of New Orleans, Amicus Curiae.
Martin W. Dies, Orange, TX, Jack A. Grant, Grant & Barrow, Gretna, LA, Robert B. Watts, Bracewell and Patterson, Houston, TX, for Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office and Lafourche Parish School Board, Amici Curiae.
Martin W. Dies, Orange, TX, Robert B. Watts, Bracewell and Patterson, Houston, TX, Fred H. Sutherland, Beard & Sutherland, Shreveport, LA, for Caddo Parish School Board and Webster Parish School Board, Amicus Curiae.
Martin W. Dies, Orange, TX, Robert B. Watts, Bracewell and Patterson, Houston, TX, Kenneth F. Sills, Hammonds & Sills, Baton Rouge, LA, for East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, St. Charles Parish School Board, Natchitoches Parish School Board, Evangeline Parish School Board, Amici Curiae.
William B. Baggett, Baggett, McCall & Burgess, Lake Charles, LA, Martin W. Dies, Orange, TX, Robert C. McCall, Lake Charles, LA, Robert B. Watts, Bracewell and Patterson, Houston, TX, for Acadia Parish School Board, Allen Parish School Board, Calcasieu Parish School Board, Cameron Parish School Board, Iberia Parish School Board, Jefferson Davis Parish School Board, Lafayette Parish School Board, Lasalle Parish School Board, St. Martin Parish School Board, Vermillion Parish School Board, Amici Curiae.
Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, and GOODWIN and DUHÉ, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
POLITZ, Chief Judge:
The Orleans Parish School Board (School Board) appeals an adverse summary judgment in its action to recover the costs of removing asbestos from school buildings. Concluding that the district court properly held that the School Board's claims against W.R. Grace & Co.-Conn. (Grace) had prescribed, we affirm.
BACKGROUND
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, school boards across the nation learned of the potential dangers of asbestos...
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