Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Associated Telephone Directory Publishers

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming District Court’s exclusion of evidence that plaintiff with asbestos-related injury has significantly increased risk of cancer, based on New Jersey decisions requiring proof of reasonable medical probability that future injury will occur
• affirming District Court's exclusion of evidence that plaintiff with asbestos-related injury has significantly increased risk of cancer, based on New Jersey decisions requiring proof of reasonable medical probability that future injury will occur
• recovery for emotional harm available only where plaintiff has sustained physical impact, injury or illness
• jury entitled to infer that asbestos products came from defendant manufacturer where plaintiff testified that he saw defendant’s name and corporate logo on product
• recovery for emotional harm available only where plaintiff has sustained physical impact, injury or illness
• abuse of dis- cretion to exclude evidence of increased future risk of cancer on theory that “mere mention of that dread disease” would unfairly prejudice de- fendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).