UM Grace Case

  Daniel Teitelbaum and Julie Yang spent the early morning session on Thursday testifying about medical evidence and the creation of a key research study used by Grace.
Teitelbaum was the founder of Poison Lab, a Denver-based company that did asbestos testing for W.R. Grace in the late ’70s. e was a former Grace researcher and [...]

Between the morning break and the lunch break, the cross and redirect examinations of Dr. Duecker were conducted and Duecker was released from his subpoena. David Krakoff, defense attorney for Eschenbach, continued his cross examination of Dr. Duecker, previously head of the R&D department at Grace. Eschenbach, one of the five Grace executives [...]

Heyman Duecker’s testimony came to an end this morning, and he’ll probably never want to hear about hamsters again.
Defense attorneys David Krakoff and Carolyn Kubota finished the cross examination of Duecker, a former research chemist who did work for Grace, asking him questions about various studies, letters and memos. Duecker, a quiet man in his [...]

   The defense continued analyzing the data and letters associated with the 1970s study conducted by chemist and former W.R. Grace employee Heyman Duecker in the W.R. Grace trial Wednesday morning .
The cross-examination came from defense attorney David Krakoff, who represents Henry Eschenbach.  He focused his questions on establishing the processes that went into getting [...]

Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Cassidy continued his direct examination of Dr. H.C. Duecker this afternoon. Cassidy led Duecker through several memos and letters from the late 1970’s concerning the “Hamster Study,” a prolonged experiment measuring the health effects of tremolite asbestos on hamsters. Dr. Julie Yang and Duecker, Grace employees during that time frame, provided [...]

The last two defense attorneys finished their cross-examination of former Grace financial analyst James Becker on Tuesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Kris McLean made his redirect, and the government called another witness to the stand to wrap up the morning.
Defense attorneys Stephen Spivack and Thomas Frongillo quickly established that Becker had nothing to say about their [...]