Shipyard Says 5th Circuit Asbestos Removal Analysis Out Of Step With Amendments

Mealey's (June 11, 2019, 12:59 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Saying that the circuit’s “outlier” causal analysis test “cannot be reconciled” with 2011 amendments to the federal officer removal statute, a shipyard on June 7 asked an en banc Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to use an asbestos case to bring its precedent in line with other courts (James A. Latiolais v. Huntington Ingalls Inc., et al., No. 18-30652, 5th Cir.)....