(May 23, 2017, 9:17 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge applied an impermissibly high standard that federal contractors plead detailed facts in support of removal of an asbestos case, a “clean break” from controlling precedent that requires reversal, a trio of telecommunications companies say in a May 5 brief filed in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (William Davidson, et al. v. Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., et al., No. 16-17252, 9th Cir.)....