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Kase v. Metalclad Insulation Corporation

Navy insulation requirements implicitly requiring use of asbestos-laced product constitute 'reasonably precise specifications' under the government contractor defense.





Cite as

2016 DJDAR 12559

Published

Dec. 21, 2016

Filing Date

Dec. 20, 2016


 

 

GARY KASE et al.,

Plaintiffs and Appellants,

v.

METALCLAD INSULATION CORPORATION,

Defendant and Respondent.

 

No. A143590

(San Francisco City & County

Super. Ct. No. CGC-11-275958)

California Courts of Appeal

First Appellate District

Division One

Filed December 21, 2016

 

ORDER MODIFYING OPINION AND

CERTIFYING OPINION FOR PARTIAL PUBLICATION

 

NO CHANGE IN JUDGMENT

 

THE COURT:

 

     The opinion in the above-entitled matter filed on November 22, 2016, was certified for partial publication in the Official Reports.  After the court?s review of requests under California Rules of Court, rule 8.1120, and good cause established under rule 8.1105, it is hereby ordered that part II.C. of opinion should be published in the Official Reports.

Dated:

 

                                                                          Margulies, P. J.

 

Trial Court:  San Francisco City and County Superior Court

 

Trial Judge: Hon. Teri L. Jackson

 

Counsel: 

 

Brayton Purcell, LLP, Gary L. Brayton and Richard M. Grant for Plaintiff and Appellant.

 

Dentons US LLP, Lisa Lurline Oberg, Felicia Y. Feng and Andrea J. Casalett; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Thomas M. Peterson and Deborah E. Quick for Defendant and Respondent.

 

 

 

 

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