San Francisco, CA commercial litigation attorney Edward Hugo talks about a memorable appeals case in which his firm made new law through their success. He notes that his firm helped establish new legal precedent in the case of Mackendo v. Huntington Ingle Shipyard, a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision. The case shaped the law in two significant ways. First, the court held for the first time that a Navy ship does not qualify as a “product” for the purposes of strict products liability. Second, in an asbestos exposure claim involving a Navy vessel, the court determined that each, any, every, or all exposure to asbestos does not automatically constitute a substantial factor for causation.