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SCAPA DRYER FABRICS, INC. v. KNIGHT

S15G1278.

788 S.E.2d 421 (2016)

SCAPA DRYER FABRICS, INC. v. KNIGHT et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided: July 5, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Barwick , Duane Morris LLC, 1075 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 2000, Atlanta, Georgia 30309-3929, M. Elizabeth O'Neill , Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young, LLP, 303 Peachtree Street, NE, Suite 4000, Atlanta, Georgia 30308-3243, J.D. Smith, PO Box 46, Gainesville, Georgia 30503, H. Lane Young, II , Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young, LLP, 4000 SunTrust Plaza, 303 Peachtree Street, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30308-3243, Robert B. Gilbreath , Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young, LLP, 4514 Cole Avenue, Suite 500, Dallas, Texas 75205, for Appellant.

Mark W. Wortham , Hall Booth Smith, P.C., 1037 Front Avenue, Columbus, Georgia 31902, William Anderson , Crowell & Morning LLP, 1001 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20004, William V. Custer, IV , Byran Cave LLP, One Atlantic Center, Fourteenth Floor, 1201 West Peachtree Street, N.W., Atlanta, Georgia 30309, for Amicus Appellant.

Robert Cape Buck , Buck Law Firm, 1050 Crown Pointe Parkway, Suite 940, Atlanta, Georgia 30338, Denyse F. Clancy , Kazan, Mcclain, Satterley & Greenwood, 55 Harrison Street, Suite 400, Oakland, California 94507, for Appellee.

J. Phillip Boston , 490 N. Milledge Avenue, Athens, Georgia 30601, for Amicus Appellee.

Scapa Dryer Fabrics, Inc. is a textile manufacturer, and in the late 1960s and early 1970s, it produced dryer felts at a manufacturing facility in Waycross. Some of the pipes and boilers in that facility were insulated with material containing asbestos, and Scapa used yarn containing asbestos in some of its manufacturing processes...

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