The Attorney General's Asbestos Liability Report to the Congress. Pursuant to Section 8(b) of the Asbestos School Hazard Detection and Control Act of 1980. Committee Print, Ninety-Seventh Congress, First Session [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 5410317
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED214256
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1981
- 245 p.
- Summary:
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The Attorney General was directed by Congress to prepare a report on whether the United States could recover, from any persons determined liable, the amounts expended to detect, contain, or remove hazardous asbestos products from schools. The general background portion of this report contains the results of the factual research and investigation. It briefly sets forth some of the uses of asbestos and describes the asbestos industry and the diseases attributed to inhalation of asbestos fibers--asbestosis, lung cancer, and mesothelioma. This section also explores documents that indicate industry knowledge of the dangers of asbestos fibers as early as the 1930s. Asbestos problems in the schools are discussed and suits already filed by two school districts are described. The legal issues portion of the report commences with a summary of the problems of duty, breach of duty, injury, limitations, and economic loss. Equitable and common law theories of recovery and the potential liability of parties other than asbestos manufacturers are discussed. The report concludes that litigation by school authorities, rather than by the federal government, should be quickly investigated as one potential means of reducing the fiscal impact on taxpayers of abating asbestos hazards in the schools. (Author/MLF)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Not available in paper copy due to small print of original document.
- Educational level discussed: Elementary Secondary Education.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor
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- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Until 2051 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1981
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