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   State Courts - Connecticut - January 11, 2005

  
Cormier v. 3M Corp., CV040409253S, SUPERIOR COURT OF CONNECTICUT, JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF FAIRFIELD, AT BRIDGEPORT, January 11, 2005, Filed
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Overview: In an executrix's product liability asbestos suit against a company, the company's motion for summary judgment under Conn. Gen. Prac. Book, R. Super. Ct. ? 17-49 was denied where, although minimal, there was evidence that the company's product contained asbestos, in that, testimony was given that the decedent had used the company's asbestos tape.

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Cormier v. 3M Corp., CV040409253S, SUPERIOR COURT OF CONNECTICUT, JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF FAIRFIELD, AT BRIDGEPORT, January 11, 2005, Filed
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Overview: In a product liability asbestos suit, companies' motion for summary judgment under Conn. Gen. Stat., R. Super. Ct. ? 17-49 was granted where companies provided affidavits indicating that, during the relevant time frame, their product did not contain asbestos, and thus, there was no admissible evidence linking the companies' product to the decedent.

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Cormier v. 3M Corp., CV040409253S, SUPERIOR COURT OF CONNECTICUT, JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF FAIRFIELD, AT BRIDGEPORT, January 11, 2005, Filed
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Overview: In asbestos-related suit, summary judgment was granted for a company where there was no admissible evidence linking company's product to decedent, and there was no evidence that, if products were used in vicinity of decedent, they contained asbestos.

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Cormier v. 3M Corp., CV040409253S, SUPERIOR COURT OF CONNECTICUT, JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF FAIRFIELD, AT BRIDGEPORT, January 11, 2005, Filed
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Overview: Because an executrix's deceased husband's statement was hearsay within hearsay, it was inadmissible under the Dead Man's Statute, Conn. Gen. Stat. ? 52-172, and not based on personal knowledge to be an affidavit. As no proof existed that a company's product contained asbestos, summary judgment on an asbestos products liability action was granted.

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DOT v. Comm'n on Human Rights & Opportunities, (SC 16889), SUPREME COURT OF CONNECTICUT, January 11, 2005, Officially Released
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Overview: Connecticut Department of Transportation did not illegally discriminate against an employee based on race or national origin where a professional engineer license was an absolute prerequisite to his promotion and the employee lacked such a license.

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Evans v. Blanchard, CV030177251S, SUPERIOR COURT OF CONNECTICUT, JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF WATERBURY, AT WATERBURY, January 11, 2005, Decided , January 11, 2005, Filed
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Overview: Wife's complaint did not show a police officer actually "publicized" her private information or had any reason to believe it would be made public. At most, she alleged the officer's disclosure of police records indirectly led to a violation of her right to privacy. She also failed to show the officer knew the risk of harm to support her NIED claim.

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Fiddner v. Dhumale, CV030350306S, SUPERIOR COURT OF CONNECTICUT, JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF DANBURY, AT DANBURY, January 11, 2005, Decided , January 11, 2005, Filed
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Flagg v. Flagg, FA960062676, SUPERIOR COURT OF CONNECTICUT, JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF TOLLAND, AT ROCKVILLE, January 11, 2005, Filed
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Overview: Although Conn. Gen. Stat. ? 46b-215b precluded social security disability payments from being the basis for an upward deviation from child support guidelines, the court nonetheless allowed a deviation based on strong circumstantial evidence of father's receipt of other reported income, primarily from his parents and his domestic partner.

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Guillemette v. Rockville Lodge No. 1359 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks, CV020079083S, SUPERIOR COURT OF CONNECTICUT, JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF TOLLAND, AT ROCKVILLE, January 11, 2005, Decided , January 11, 2005, Filed
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Overview: Connecticut court's decision allowing common law causes of action against alcohol providers for a four-month window before enactment of amendment to the Dram Shop Act was not applied retroactively to allow a motorcycle rider to sue an organization for damages after a drunk patron collided with him in 2001.

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Harmon v. All Am. Life Ins. Co., CV03082652S, SUPERIOR COURT OF CONNECTICUT, JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF ANSONIA - MILFORD, AT MILFORD, January 11, 2005, Decided , January 11, 2005, Filed
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Overview: Where an insured had a change in her health from the time she signed an application for insurance coverage, a condition precedent to coverage was not met. Thus, the policy was never in effect, and a beneficiary lacked a claim thereto.

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