MARTIN v. CINCINNATI GAS AND ELEC. CO.

No. 07-6385.

561 F.3d 439 (2009)

David MARTIN, Executor of the Estate of Dennis B. Martin, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CINCINNATI GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, General Motors Corporation, General Electric Company, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: January 27, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Kenneth L. Sales, Sales, Tillman, Walbaum, Catlett & Satterley, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellant. Gary J. Sergent, O'Hara, Ruberg, Taylor, Sloan & Sergent, Covington, Kentucky, James K. Vines, King & Spalding, Washington, D.C., Scott T. Dickens, Fultz, Maddox, Hovious & Dickens, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Kenneth L. Sales, Paul J. Kelley, Sales, Tillman, Walbaum, Catlett & Satterley, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellant. Gary J. Sergent, Michael J. O'Hara, O'Hara, Ruberg, Taylor, Sloan & Sergent, Covington, Kentucky, James K. Vines, King & Spalding, Washington, D.C., Scott T. Dickens, Fultz, Maddox, Hovious & Dickens, Louisville, Kentucky, Eric M. Cavanaugh, Duke Energy Shared Services, Inc., Plainfield, Indiana, for Appellees. Mark A. Behrens, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Washington, D.C., for Amicus Curiae.

Before: SILER and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges; LUDINGTON, District Judge.


OPINION

McKEAGUE, Circuit Judge.

Dennis Martin ("Mr.Martin") died from malignant mesothelioma on March 22, 2002. His son, David Martin ("Plaintiff"), serving as executor of his father's estate, filed a complaint based on asbestos exposure in Kentucky state court against nine defendants. Defendants removed the case to the Eastern District of Kentucky based on diversity.

After various defendants settled or...

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