Robert Andrew BOURGEOIS, et al.
v.
A.P. GREEN INDUSTRIES, INC., et al.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
July 8, 1998.
Rehearing Denied September 4, 1998.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Frank Joseph Swarr, Mickey P. Landry, LeBlanc, Maples & Waddell, New Orleans; Robert G. Creely, Jacob John Amato, Jr., Amato & Creely, Gretna, for Applicant.
Madeleine Fischer, Leon Gary, Jr., Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans; Thomas Gregor Milazzo, LeBlanc, Miranda & Delaup, Metairie; Edward Joseph Castaing, Jr., Crull, Castaing & Lilly, New Orleans; Edward B. McDonough, Jr., Robert Edgar Caraway, III, Laura Lucille Spadafora, Plauche, Maselli & Landry, New Orleans; Gary Allen Lee, Robert E. Peyton, Christovich & Kearney, New Orleans; Samuel Milton Rosamond, III, Fleming & Rosamond, Metairie; J. Michael Johnson, Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins & Burr, New Orleans; Stephen Nolan Elliott, Bernard, Cassisa & Elliott, Metairie; Lynn M. Luker, Tyson B. Stofstahl, Rebecca A. Bush, Lisa Newman Sibal, Rodi William Culotta, Adams & Reese, New Orleans; Eric Shuman, McGlinchey Stafford, New Orleans; Glen Lyle Maximilian Swetman, Troy Nathan Bell, David Edmund Redmann, Jr., Thomas W. Tyner, Aultman, Tyner, McNeese & Ruffin, New Orleans; C. William Bradley, Jr., Dwight C. Paulsen, III, Michael Stephen Sepcich, Lemle & Kelleher, New Orleans; Kaye N. Courington, Duncan, Courington, New Orleans; Michael Thomas Cali, Frilot, Partridge, Kohnke & Clements, New Orleans; Glenn Brozman Adams, Edwin A. Ellinghausen, III, Robert Sartain Emmett, Porteous, Hainkel, Johnson & Sarpy, New Orleans; Rikard L. Bridges, Geoffrey Powell Snodgrass, Christovich & Kearney, New Orleans; Gary Allen Lee, Richard Marshall Perles, Lee, Futrell & Perles, New Orleans; Susan B. Kohn, George Jeffrey Rizzo, Simmon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans; Forrest Ren Wilkes, John D. Cosmich, Cynthia L. Tolbert, Forman, Perry, Watkins & Krutz, Jackson, MS; Gordon Peter Wilson, Lugenbuhl, Burke, Wheaton, Peck, Rankin & Hubbard, New Orleans; Willian L. Crull, III, Jonathan Marc Herman, New Orleans, for Respondent.
Joseph L. McReynolds, New Orleans, for Center for Claims Resolution, Amicus Curiae.
Floyd J. Falcon, Jr., Baton Rouge, for Louisiana AFL-CIO, Amicus Curiae.
Lynn M. Luker, New Orleans, Lisa Newman Sibal, for Chemical Manufacturers Association, Amicus Curiae.
Ernest Lloyd Johnson, Baton Rouge, for NAACP, Amicus Curiae.
Supreme Court of Louisiana.
MARCUS, Justice.*
Plaintiffs, current and past employees of Avondale Shipyards, initiated this suit on behalf of themselves and a class of all persons ever employed at Avondale Industries, Inc. who allegedly were exposed to asbestoscontaining products but who have not already filed suit for an asbestos-related injury or disease.1 In their petition, plaintiffs allege that they were exposed to airborne asbestos...
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