Aubrey Hendrix v. Raybestos-Manhattan, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 42(a) “is a codification of a trial court’s inherent managerial power ‘to control the disposition of the causes on its docket with economy of time and effort for itself, for counsel, and for litigants’” (citations omitted)
• noting district courts enjoy broad discretion in whether to consolidate actions
• the three letters strengthen the inference that defendants knew or should have known that users of their asbestos insulation ran a risk of contracting asbestosis
• under Georgia law, there may be an offset for settlement amounts received from joint tortfeasors for an indivisible injury
• amount received by spouse who settled claim for loss of consortium should not be set off against damages received at trial because \the damages sustained by a spouse are exclusive of those suffered by her husband\
• “It is error for a trial court to submit a claim for future medical expenses to the jury if, to make an award, the jury must engage in sheer speculation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).