New York Asbestos Suit Sets Off Fight Over Proper Jurisdiction

(March 26, 2019, 1:03 PM EDT) -- BUFFALO, N.Y.  — While a New York federal magistrate judge ponders whether an asbestos-talc suit would not be more proper a multidistrict talc action, the plaintiffs in a March 22 brief tell him that the case does not even belong in federal court and was removed in a “disingenuous and frivolous” attempt to avoid state court rules (John Castro, et al. v. Colgate-Palmolive Co., et al., No. 19-279, W.D. N.Y.)....