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BUTTRAM v. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORP.

Docket No. S046375.

16 Cal.4th 520 (1997)

JAMES BUTTRAM, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. OWENS-CORNING FIBERGLAS CORPORATION, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

August 18, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Wright, Robinson, McCammon, Osthimer & Tatum, Wright, Robinson, Osthimer & Tatum, James C. Nielsen, Thomas H. Nienow, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Jerry Fowler, Jr., and Larry L. Simms for Defendant and Appellant.

Morgenstein & Jubelirer, Eliot S. Jubelirer, Lee Ann Huntington, Bruce A. Wagman, Landels, Ripley & Diamond and Sanford Svetcov as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

Bryce C. Anderson, Kazan, McClain, Edises, Simon & Abrams, Dianna Lyons and Denise Abrams for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Wartnick, Chaber, Harowitz, Smith & Tigerman, Harry F. Wartnick and Madelyn J. Chaber as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

OPINION

BAXTER, J. —

I. Introduction.

Defendant and appellant Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation (OCF) appealed from a products liability judgment in the amount of $1,519,475 entered against it in a trial involving plaintiff and respondent James Buttram's exposure to OCF's asbestos-containing products and his consequent contraction of pleural mesothelioma, an asbestos...

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