New York Court of Appeals, 1981

Steinhardt v. Johns-Manville Corp.

New York Court of Appeals · Decided December 22, 1981

55 N.Y.2d 802; 447 N.Y.S.2d 437; 432 N.E.2d 139; 1981 N.Y. LEXIS 3324

Cases that cite this one

10 later published cases cite this decision.

Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Gianotti (Md. Ct. Spec. App. 2002)
Johnson v. Eli Lilly and Co. (District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania 1983)
Weissman v. Dow Corning Corp. (District Court, S.D. New York 1995)
Celotex Corp. v. Meehan (Fla. 1988)
Germantown Central School District v. Clark (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 2002)
Barresi v. State (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1996)
Consorti v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. (N.Y. 1995)
Piccirelli v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. (Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York 1987)
Seckular v. Celotex (N.J. Super. Ct. App. Div. 1986)
Fleishman v. Lilly (N.Y. 1984)

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Opinion of the Court

Motion by plaintiff Steinhardt to amend the remittitur granted, return of the remittitur requested and, when returned, it will be amended by adding thereto the following: Upon the appeal herein there was presented and necessarily passed upon a question under the Constitution of .the United States, viz.: Whether the holding that the plaintiff’s causes of action accrued and the Statutes of Limitations commenced when the employment-related exposure to asbestos particles occurred deprived plaintiff of due process of law.

On the court’s own motion, in Rosenberg et al., return of the remittitur requested and, when returned, it will be amended by adding thereto the following: Upon the appeal herein there was presented and necessarily passed upon a question under the Constitution of the United States, viz.: Whether the holding that the plaintiffs’ causes of action accrued and the Statutes of Limitations commenced when the employment-related exposure to asbestos particles occurred deprived plaintiffs of due process of law. [See 54 NY2d 1008.]

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