AT&T Asbestos Awareness Course #600519 fi i RECOGNIZING SUSPECT ASBESTOS MATERIALS (Continued) MISCELLANEOUS ACM In some ceiling tiles (typically those installed prior to 1980 in the US) In dry wall/tape/plaster In cable slots, runs and vaults as insulation Paints Floor tiles and mastics (typically those installed in the US prior to 1984) Asbestos cement (transite), corrugated panels, and pipes Roofing shingles, tar, flashing Automotive brakes and clutches Caulks, such as duxseal, etc.
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PLAINTIFF'S EXHIBIT BuDiac' Telecommunications Industrial Hygiene Survey Kit AftT Bell Laboratories late January 26, 1985 i>om.
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Price, speed of completion, warranties, and competence of mechanics when having a brake job done. .
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I / PLAINTIFFS EXHIBIT AB-126 An cC Sittfusiries Company Memorandum Date: May 27, 1980 Subject: NON-ASBESTOS MATERIALS From: To: B.
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ARTY 1AINTIFF ENSEY 3NSTANTIN ANE 5E EOTTA SYMAN ONDON DNG OVETT acCASKIE ARTIN ASON cCORMICK cCULLEN IHALY ILLIGAN ALL EISS ELSON VERTON ANNELL EARLINGI IPPINS YCZ SAVES SED 2ES DATE OF SERVICE 6/30/81 4/25/83 1/ 5/83 11/23/81 11/23/81 1/24/83 6/22/83 5/11/83 1/20/82 2/29/84 Early 1980s 4/18/84 2/28/83 4/20/82 Early 1980s 3/16/84 12/14/81 1/18/83 10/ 6/83 7/26/82 5/ 8/82 12/16/83 5/11/83 3/18/83 5/ 6/83 11/30/83 10/22/80 ) <fiKGED INJURY Asbestos related injury fl M M If H tl it ii ti n ii it tt it tt ii it ii it ti ii ii n 11 i PLA.J OF VENUE U.S.
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ISSUE E2SJQS__PROGRESS___UP__TO__1985 DOWNWARD % OF SALETS TREND ASBESTOS US AGS EE PER CUBIC INCH TREMD OMI--V APPROVED SOURCE -- NEW CAR.
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22488 Federal Register / Vol. 51, No. 119 / Friday, June 20, 1986 / Rules and Regulations Sec.
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22530 Federal Register / Vol. 51, No. 119 / Friday, June 20, 1986 / Proposed Rules 1 Miami.
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predecessor company represented m written submissions to Italian regulatory authorities that landfills located at the Orzinuovi plant were permanently closed in 1983 and reclaimed in 1984, the doctrine ofregulatory estoppel precludes Plaintiffs from asserting a position contrary to this representation, namely, that landfills at the Orzinuovi plant were used until 1986 See First Am Compl, count I, ^ 13 Defendants cite Tozzi v Lone Island Railroad Co , 651 N Y S 2d 270.274-75 (N Y Sup 1996V as support for the availability of regulatory estoppel In Tozzi, the court relied upon principles underlying the doctrine of judicial estoppel to conclude that, m an appropriate situation, a court may invoke the concept of regulatory estoppel "to estop a party m a litigation from making a factual assertion contrary to a factual assertion made m the course of an administrative proceeding " Id at 275 But application of this theory is not appropriate where, as here, the initial factual representations were not made during the course of a formal regulatory proceeding See id The Tozzi court declined to apply regulatory estoppel in that case because "[i]n the instant action, the subject endorsement was adopted in the State of New York by a single letter request setting forth the proposed amendment No hearings were conducted No regulatory proceedings of any nature were conducted requiring the insurer's presence The insurer did not submit a sworn written statement or make any factual representations under oath " Id Like in Tozzi, the factual assertions at issue here were not made in the course of an administrative proceeding, nor were they made under oath Based on the reasoning in Tozzi, in particular, that absent a prior regulatory proceeding analogous to a judicial prosecution of an action, utilizing the concept of regulatory estoppel against a litigant is improper, the Court declines to apply regulatory estoppel m this case According to evidence in this case, in October 1983, regulatory authorities issued a statement officially acknowledging the closure of the landfill disposal facility at the Orzinuovi plant Moreover, after conducting an on-site inspection of the plant in April 1984, regulatory officials acknowledged Frendo's compliance with the program for reclamation of the site Defendants argue that this official confirmation of closure, among other things, conclusively establishes that Frendo ceased on-site usage oflandfills in 1983, or, at the very least, as of April 1984 when regulators conducted the on-site inspection *11 In support of their allegation of post-inspection dumping, Plaintiffs hope to rely upon the testimony of two Frendo plant employees, Messrs Pizzamigno and Vianelli, at least one of whom has sworn that landfills at the Orzinuovi plant were used as late as 1986 These Page 9 statements, however, are gravely suspect Specifically, Defendants argue that Plaintiffs cannot use any testimony from these witnesses to prove post-inspection dumping because Plaintiffs deliberately destroyed prior sworn affidavits by the same two men See Defs ' 56 1 Statement ^ 47 Back in 1992, Plaintiffs began compiling evidence regarding the history ofthe landfills m order to convince Defendants to pay the "maximum amount" toward the cleanup costs See Roberts Aff ^ 23, Ex V To do so, Plaintiffs enlisted Mr Colli, the Orzinuovi plant manager and a Managing Director of plaintiff Frendo, to obtain the affidavits of Messrs Pizzamiglio and Vianelli At his deposition, Mr Colli testified that after obtaining these sworn statements he deliberately destroyed them sometime after June 1992 See Roberts Aff ^ 3, Ex B, p 111 He also testified that Messrs Pizzamiglio and Vianelli signed the affidavits, but "Before sending the affidavits, I was in contact with our lawyers, and 1 said, 'If we go this way, we are going to sign that we did something illegal I want to be sure that our people are not going to have a problem of that" ' Id at 110, see id ("Because the people signed the paper, Pizzamiglio and Vianelli, but we didn't deliver to anybody these papers ") Later in the deposition, Mr Colli was asked whether he provided a copy of those affidavits to anyone else, to which he responded in the negative See id at 112 In the course of discovery, Plaintiffs produced copies of unsigned affidavits, one each from Messrs Pizzamiglio and Vianelli, stating that landfill usage at the Orzinuovi plant occurred between 1974 and 1982 See Defs ' 56 1 Statement f 49, Roberts Aff 26, Ex Y Defendants point out that the information contained in these unsigned affidavits therefore contradicts Plaintiffs' allegations of post-inspection use of landfills at the Orzinuovi plant Notwithstanding the contents of the unsigned affidavits, Plaintiffs have elicited testimony from Mr Vianelli to the effect that dumping ofsmall amounts ofscrap material at the plant occurred as late as 1986 See id, Roberts Aff Ex W, pp 110-11 In response, Plaintiffs now explain that their counsel prepared draft affidavits of Messrs Pizzamiglio and Vianelli sometime m late 1992 (specifically, sometime between November of 1992 and December 17,1992) as part ofsettlement negotiations with Whitman and Abex See Pis' Resp to Defs'5b 1TJ43, Hackett Decl 1fl[4-6 In particular, Plaintiffs submit the declaration of David P Hackett, Esq (the lead counsel for Rutgers and Frendo in connection with these negotiations), which states that sometime after November of 1992, he prepared draft affidavits of Messrs Pizzamiglio and Vlanelii, and, on December 17,1992, he sent the drafts to these two gentlemen as well as Mr Marcoaldi, Copr West 2003 No Claim to Orig U S Govt Works
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v>EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Public Affairs (A-107) Washington DC 20460 Environmental News FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1989 EPA ANNOUNCES FINAL REGULATION TO BAN NEW ASBESTOS PRODUCTS R-130 Luke Hester 202-382-4383 The U.S.
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