Justice Won’t Strike Answer As Penalty In Asbestos Discovery Dispute

(December 13, 2019, 1:31 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — If a company doesn’t have responsive documents in an asbestos case, it must more fully explain why, but nothing suggests that its current answers are willful or made in bad faith, a New York justice held in declining to strike the company’s answer on Nov. 21 (Russell Leavitt, et al. v. A.O. Smith Water Products, et al., No. 190240/2017, N.Y. Sup., New York Co., 2019 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 6218)....

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