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Personal Injury & Torts

Mar. 9, 2012

Use of political question doctrine rejected in Navy asbestos case

Courts have heard Navy-related asbestos tort claims for decades without jurisdiction being questioned. By Michael Gurien of Waters, Kraus & Paul LLP


By Michael B. Gurien


Some attorneys for defendants involved in asbestos-related litigation have suggested that the state Supreme Court's recent decision in O'Neil v. Crane Co., 53 Cal. 4th 335 (2012) might support application of the political question doctrine to tort claims by former U.S. Navy sailors and their families for injuries and deaths caused by exposure to asbestos from products manufactured or supplied by private companies for use on Nav...

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