Crown Cork Files Supplemental Brief In Support of Global Dismissal Motion

PHILADELPHIA - Crown Cork & Seal has supplemented its global motion for summary judgment following a hearing earlier last month in Philadelphia to determine whether legislation recently passed in Pennsylvania will absolve the company of its liability obligations there. In Re: Asbestos Litigation, October Term 1986, No. 001 (Pa. Comm. Pls., Philadelphia Cty.).

A week after the April 3 hearing before Judge Allen L. Tereshko in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, the defendant filed a supplemental brief in response to oral argument, claiming that plaintiffs' counsel had on several points misunderstood.

Crown Cork is seeking dismissal from all asbestos …