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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Fallon grants summary judgment to the shipyard worker's widow who alleges her husband’s employer of only three months failed to warn and enact safety measures to prevent the uncontrolled spread of cancer-causing asbestos that took his life. Citing rulings from other courts, she successfully argues the shipyard should not be allowed to invoke the government contractor defense to immunize itself from only her claims.
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