England v. Chrysler Corp.

How later courts describe this case

• holding that each manufacturer who contributed in anyway, and at any time, to a claimant's bodily injury is fully liable for all the resulting damages
• holding asbestos manufacturers jointly and severally liable for asbestos related diseases that were caused, in part, by its products
• asbestosis; disease does not ordinarily manifest itself until "ten to twenty-five or more years after exposure"
• failure to give complete disclosure of the existence and extent of risk involved in use of product deprived product of comment k exemption
• though requested relief declaratory only, granting of such would interfere with discretionary functions of state judges whose decision would, in effect, be reversed
• asbestosis; disease does not ordinarily manifest itself until “ten to twenty-five years or more after exposure”
• asbestosis; disease does not generally manifest itself until “ten to twenty-five or more years after exposure”
• “the advantaged and disadvantaged parties must be shown to be competing customers ... in order for there to be discrimination”