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The record
- Jurisdiction
- Mississippi
- Level
- Court
- Authority
- Mississippi common law of master and servant; Miss. R. Civ. P. 20(a) (joinder)
- Issued
- 2002-02-28 Feb. 28, 2002
- Effective
- standing (common law) (read as 2002-02-28)
- End
- standing (read as 2021-09-30)
- In force
- Standing since Feb. 28, 2002 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesStanding duty
- Addressees
- Character
- adjudication
- Collection
- Standing duties: Mississippi DUT-MS
Operative words
Travis argues that these claims arise out of ICRR's 'policy of not warning or protecting its workers from the hazards of asbestos exposure, and breaching its non-delegable duty to provide a reasonably safe place to work.'... b) ICRR's negligence in failing to provide asbestos exposed employees' respirators, protective clothing and/or proper ventilation
Penalty
Tort liability for breach (outside the workers' compensation exclusivity where applicable)
What it required
The Court, in holding the employees' claims properly joined, treats the employer's failure to warn of and protect against a workplace hazard (respirators, protective clothing, ventilation) as the breach of a single 'non-delegable duty to provide a reasonably safe place to work' (¶¶ 24-25, at 935-36); the passage recites the plaintiffs' framing, which the Court adopts as the common question of law and fact. Character as recorded: adjudication (workplace duty construed).
Retrieval note8 pages; the official reporter text (Southern Reporter, Second Series) as digitized by the Harvard Law School Library's Caselaw Access Project. The Supreme Court's own later description of this holding is Ex. DUT-MS-014.