Mealey's (November 21, 2018, 12:56 PM EST) -- ALBANY, N.Y. — A federal judge in New York on Nov. 19 denied a motion by the 3M Co. to stay a groundwater contamination lawsuit but granted the company’s alternative request to postpone certain depositions until the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPMDL) rules on its motion to transfer the cases to a federal court overseeing an MDL for similar lawsuits (Kenneth Wickenden, et al. v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics Corp., et al., No. 17-1056, N.D. N.Y.)....