SPENCER v. SPECIALTY FOUNDRY PRODUCTS INC.

No. 19-14427.

953 F.3d 735 (2020)

Kelvin SPENCER, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SPECIALTY FOUNDRY PRODUCTS INC., et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

March 17, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Franklin Prince , Joshua P. Hayes , Prince Glover & Hayes, PC, Tuscaloosa, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Patrick Patronas , Elliott B. Monroe, Lloyd Gray Whitehead & Monroe, PC, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellant Specialty Foundry Products Inc.

Charles Paul Cavender , Allan R. Wheeler , Bret L. Thompson , Burr & Forman, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellant Porter Warner Industries LLC.

Edward B. McDonough, Jr. , Law Offices of Edward B. McDonough Jr., PC, Mobile, AL, for Defendant-Appellant Southern Precision Sands Inc.

Matthew W. Robinett , William Mellor Bains Fleming, III , Norman Wood Kendrick Turner , Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellant Hill & Griffith Company.

John Mann Johnson , Brian P. Kappel , Elizabeth Humphrey Huntley , Zachary Pelham Martin , Lightfoot Franklin & White, LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellant Imerys Minerals USA Inc.

Christopher S. Berdy , Xan Ingram Flowers , Butler Snow, LLP, Birmingham, AL, John C. Henegan , Butler Snow, LLP, Ridgeland, MS, for Defendants-Appellants Alpha Resins LLC., and Wedron Silica Company.

Robert R. Baugh , Meghan Salvati Cole , Sirote & Permutt, PC, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellant.

Ronald Bruce Barze, Jr. , Matthew Todd Lowther , Barze Taylor Noles Lowther, LLC, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellant Ask Chemicals LP.

Before MARTIN, ROSENBAUM, and NEWSOM, Circuit Judges.


Kelvin Spencer and 229 other former workers at the Grede Foundry in Bessemer, Alabama (collectively, the "Plaintiffs") say they were harmed by exposure to hazardous and harmful chemical substances released and formed at the foundry. The foundry is now out of business, so the Plaintiffs filed suit in Alabama state court against...

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