BLOOMINGTON, Ill. (Legal Newsline) – An Illinois district judge has granted summary judgment to a gasket manufacturer in a take-home asbestos exposure case in which the defendant claims it never even manufactured asbestos-containing gaskets.

Judge Rebecca S. Foley granted summary judgment for defendant Chicago Gasket Company on Oct. 6 in Illinois’ McLean County Circuit Court just before a trial was set to begin.

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