Mealey's (January 22, 2021, 1:42 PM EST) -- TRENTON, N.J. — The court acted within its discretion in severing asbestos-talc plaintiffs to handle the “tangle of jurisdictional issues,” the plaintiffs fail to link a dismissed defendant to the company they claim keeps it in the suit and arguments about the nature of a third defendant are untimely, the federal judge overseeing the talc multidistrict litigation said Jan. 19 in denying reconsideration....