A worker’s asbestos exposure claims against Boeing stemming from his work on military planes decades ago will stay in federal court, the Northern District of California ruled June 20 (Thrash v. Cirrus Enters., LLC, 2017 BL 211334, N.D. Cal., No. 17-cv-01501, remand denied 6/20/17).
The ruling denied Joseph Thrash’s bid to return his negligence claims against The Boeing Co. and other manufacturers to California state courts.
Boeing and other companies sued by Thrash—United Technologies Corp., Lockheed Martin Co., and The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.—demonstrated their manufacture of the military aircraft was at the direction ...
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