(February 15, 2017, 1:18 PM EST) -- COLUMBIA, S.C. — A federal judge in South Carolina on Feb. 13 denied a valve company’s motion for summary judgment, holding that it must be left to a jury to decide whether the company specified the use of asbestos in its valves and whether that asbestos was a substantial cause of a former naval officer’s mesothelioma (James Wilson Chesher, et al. v. 3M Company, No. 15-cv-2123, D. S.C., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20706)....