Lawrence Leather Co. v. Norton, Lilly & Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a plaintiff must allege facts showing that the defendant participated, condoned, encouraged, or knowingly acquiesced in alleged misconduct to establish liability
• holding that the focus of N.C.G.S. § 99B-4(3) is not on a plaintiff’s “use of the product” per se; rather, the focus is on whether a plaintiff “failed to exercise reasonable care under the circumstances in the use of the product”
• finding that under North Carolina law, a “plaintiff in a personal injury asbestos case must prove more than a casual or minimum contact with the product containing asbestos” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• observing that our conclusion that the focus of § 99B- 4(3
• noting that failure to move to strike affidavits waived objection on appeal
• applying the threshold causation standard outlined in Lohrmann v. Pittsburgh Corning Corp., 782 F.2d 1156, 1162–63 (4th Cir. 1986), to a North Carolina case

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