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manufacturing equipment, acceptability and familiarity to customers, and safety with regard to its use in friction products. INTERROGATORY NO. 38: Identify any and all facilities at which Defendant, any predecessor or any related company, at any time, manufactured or processed asbestos-containing products, or processed raw asbestos. For each such facility identified:
(a) State the date(s) which said facility was owned and/or operated by Defendant, any predecessor or any related company;
(b) State the date(s) during which asbestos-containing products and/or raw asbestos were manufactured or processed, at said facility; and,
(c) Identify each person serving as the manager or supervisor of said facility during any time which the facility has been owned and/or operated by Defendant, any predecessor or any related company, and state the date(s) of the tenure as manager or supervisor for each.
SECOND AMENDED ANSWER TO INTERROGATORY NO. 38; Abex objects to this interrogatory on the grounds that it is overly broad, unduly burdensome, compound, vague and ambiguous and calls for speculation. Abex also objects to this interrogatory on the ground that it purports to shift the burden of
establishing product identification from plaintiffs to Abex. Abex further objects to this interrogatory to the extent it purports to seek information or
materials regarding time periods, products and work sites that are not at issue in these cases, on the grounds that such information or materials lack relevance and are not reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence. Abex objects to this interrogatory on the grounds that the information or materials it purports to seek lack relevance to the issues arising in these
cases and are not reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence.
Subject to and without waiving these objections, Abex never mined, marketed or
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