Judge Denies Paint Companies New Trial; Jury Could Find WLC ‘Dangerously Defective’

(March 13, 2020, 8:14 AM EDT) -- MILWAUKEE — A federal judge in Wisconsin on Feb. 28 ruled that a former maker of lead-based paint was not entitled to a new trial on grounds that the jury could reasonably have found that white lead carbonate (WLC) in paint was dangerously defective because the ordinary customer would not have contemplated the risk that as paint deteriorated, the WLC would be released and it would mix with household dust where it might by ingested by children (Glenn Burton v. American Cyanamid, et al., No. 07-0303, E.D. Wis., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 34315)....