Broad Discovery Sought From Oil Asbestos Defendants Lacks Relevance, Judge Says

Mealey's (August 23, 2021, 2:44 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Discovery requests seeking information about drilling mud and additives that asbestos oil defendants used will not produce relevant information in a case where a man has not identified the oil rigs on which he worked and instead appear to be a “last-ditch effort to create a case,” a federal judge in Louisiana said Aug. 9 in denying motions to compel....