Byers v. Lincoln Electric Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the place with the longest time period of manganese welding fume exposure \pointed strongly\ to finding that it was place of injury
• noting that Ohio’s choice-of-law principles regard the place of injury as “the most important” factor
• stating that direct filing of complaint in Ohio MDL court, pursuant to court order on direct filing, required application of Ohio’s choice-of-law rules
• stating, without further analysis, that because the plaintiff “filed his complaint directly in this Court ..., the choice-of-law principles of Ohio,' the forum state, govern the Court’s analysis”
• applying Texas substantive law in a tort action based on exposure to welding fumes because, although plaintiff had welding jobs in numerous states, \the vast majority of his welding jobs were in Texas\
• noting some states adhere to contributory negligence while others follow comparative negligence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).