Adan G. ADAME, Robert H. Arispe, Harvey Edward Arnold, Hermon Harvey Arnold, Luciano Barrientez, Homer L. Batchelor, Tomas Benitez, Delbert Ray Blundell, Melvin Briones, Troy Britt, Raymond H. Butterfield, Guadalupe Calvo Jr., Richard F. Capson, Mercedes Castillo, Ignacio Cavazos, Hector A. Chapa, Humberto Chapa, Rex Cicero, Palfrey Collins, Glenn Courmier, Eddie M. Cross, Francisco Dabdub, Carol Gene Dabney, Steve Davis, Noe De La Cruz, Jose G. Delapaz, Jose Duenes, Jessie Duncan, Rudy Encinas, Jose Esquivel, Jose T. Fajardo, Benjamin D. Fields, Frank Franco, Jesus Cantu Garcia Jr., Pablo G. Garcia Sr., Michael Gary, Alonzo Garza, Hermilo Garza Sr., Homero Garza, Oscar Garza Jr., Paul D. Gawlik, Manuel B. Gonzales, Bacilio M. Guzman, Chester Harrington, Norris G. Hawley, Gerald Henry, Jose A. Hernandez, Rigoberto Hernandez, C. Dell Hodge Jr., David Hollingsworth, Kenneth W. Houff, Elmer Jamison, Ronnie L. Johnson, Curtis Jones, Joe Koenig, Elias Leal, Robert Lemos, Jose G. Longoria, Antonio Lopez, Celso Lopez, Arron Luke, George McFarland, Ernest Mechell, Robert Mechell, Jose Meza, Clyde T. Miller, Keith Moore, Juan Morales, Tomas Morin, Adalberto Muniz, Daniel Navejar, Esteban Nieto, Daniel Ochoa, Marcos Ortiz, Jimmy Patterson, Manuel C. Paz Sr., Roberto Paz, Juan R. Perez, Oscar Perez, Victor C. Perez, Carl Prentice, Rene R. Ramirez, Ray Charles Redmon, Billy W. Richardson, Jose Rios, Floyd H. Rodgers, Jose Z. Rojas, George Saenz, Hector Salazar, Guadalupe C. Serna, Jesus Soliz, Howard LeRoy Spears, Roger Spencer, Carroll G. Starks, William T. Terral, Curtis Thomas, Martin Torres, Teodoro Tovar, Jose Luis Uresti, Enrique G. Villarreal Jr., Clifton Weitzel, Robert F. Weitzel, Joseph H. Wheeler, Jay C. Whitlock, Herbert Whitmire, and Abelardo Zambrano, Appellants,
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3M COMPANY f/k/a Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company; Aearo Company; Air Equipment & Repair, Inc.; Air Liquide America L.P.; Airtrol Supply, Inc.; Alamo Cement Company; Amcol International Corporation; American Colloid Company; American Optical Corporation; AMF Incorporated & Minstar, Inc.; Ashland Chemical, Inc.; Bacou-Dalloz Safety, Inc. f/k/a Dalloz Safety, Inc. f/k/a WGM Safety Corporation d/b/a Willson Safety Products; Barretts Minerals Inc.; Barry & Barry Sand Company, Inc.; Black & Decker (U.S.), Inc.; Bob Schmidt, Inc.; Bondo Corporation; Cel Industries, Inc.; Central Ready Mix Concrete; Chevron U.S.A. Inc. f/k/a Gulf Oil; Chicago Pneumatic, Inc.; CITGO Petroleum Corporation; CITGO Refining and Chemicals Company, L.P.; Clemco Industries Corporation Hanson Aggregates LLC Successor By Merger to Pioneer International (USA), Inc. Successor by Merger to Hanson Aggregates, Inc. f/k/a Hanson Aggregates Central, Inc. f/k/a Pioneer South Central, Inc. f/k/a Pioneer Concrete of Texas, Inc.; Corpus Christi Equipment Company; DeVilbiss or the DeVilbiss Company (Sometimes Named as Ransburg Corporation, ITW Finishing LLC or Illinois Tool Works Inc.); E. I. du Pont de Nemours; E.D. Bullard Company, Inc.; Eastern Safety Equipment Co., Inc.; El Paso Sand & Trucking; Empire Abrasive Equipment Company, L.P.; Empire Abrasive Equipment Corporation; Encon Safety Products, Inc.; Espey Silica Sand Company, Inc.; Fairmount Minerals, Ltd.; Ferro Engineering Division of on Marine Services; Flex-Kleen; Flexo Products, Inc.; Gardner Denver, Inc.; General Pattern Company (Successor-By-Merger to General Foundry Products Corp.); Glendale Technologies, Inc.; Granite City Tools; Hamilton Sundstrand; Hanson Aggregates West, Inc.; Hexion Inc. f/k/a Momentive Specialty Chemicals f/k/a Hexion Specialty Chemicals, Inc. and f/k/a Borden Chemical, Inc.; Humble Sand & Gravel, Inc.; Ideal Basic Industries, Inc.; Industrial Holdings Corporation f/k/a the Carborundum Company; Ingersoll-Rand Company; Jobe Concrete Products; Kelco Sales & Engineering Co., a Division of Polley, Inc.; Key Houston, a Division of Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc.; Key Houston, Inc., a Division of Jacksonville Shipyards, Inc.; Lockheed Martin Corporation; Logan & Whaley Company; Lone Star Industries, Inc.; Louis M. Gerson Company, Inc.; Martindale Electric Company; Milton Roy; Mine Safety Appliances; Mississippi Valley Silica Company, Inc.; Moldex-Metric, Inc.; Norcross; North Safety Products; Oglebay Norton; P.K. Lindsay Company; Pangborn Corporation; Parmelee Industries, Inc.; Pauli & Griffin Company; Porter Warner Industries, Inc.; Premier Refractories, Inc., Improperly Named and Served as American Premier, Inc. f/k/a Premier Refractories and Chemicals, Inc.; Protech Coatings, Inc. f/k/a Foundry Specialties, Inc.; Pulmosan Safety Equipment Corporation; Quikrete; Racal Health and Safety, Inc.; Ruemelin in Receivership; Sabine Propeller & Marine Service Company; Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc., f/k/a Norton Company; Schramm, Inc.; Scott Technologies, Inc.; Shreveport Rubber and Gasket; Siebe North; Silica Products, Inc.; Sly, Inc. f/k/a W. W. Sly Manufacturing Co.; Southern Silica of Louisiana, Inc.; Specialty Minerals Inc.; Specialty Sand Company; Spence Concrete Company Sullair, LLC; Sundyne; Survivair, a Division of U.S.D. Corporation; Survivair, Inc.; Technisand, Inc.; Texas Gasket; Textron Inc.; the Dow Chemical Company; the Eastwood Group Inc. d/b/a the Eastwood Company; the Goodyear Rubber and Tire Company; the Hill and Griffith Company; the Morie Company; Thorstenberg Materials Co., Inc.; Tide-Air; Triangle Supply; Triplex, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation; TXI Operations, LP; Tyrolit North America Inc.; U.S. Silica Company, Formerly Known as Pennsylvania Glass Sand Corporation and Successor in Interest Though Merger to Ottawa Silica Company; Unimin Corporation; Union Carbide Corporation; Valero Energy Corporation; Vallen Corporation; Vesuvius USA Corporation; Vulcan Materials Company; Wedron Silica Company, an Ohio Corporation; Wesco; Wesco Refractories; and Wheeler Protective Apparel, Inc., Appellees.
