Panel Dismisses Appeal: Asbestos Plaintiff Didn’t Adequately Elect Admiralty Law

(May 14, 2024, 2:57 PM EDT) -- BOSTON — Nothing required a plaintiff proceeding with both admiralty and traditional asbestos tort claims to expressly invoke maritime law, but the absence of such a statement precludes access to admiralty law’s special procedures for interlocutory appeal, a panel of the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said in an unpublished per curiam opinion....