Judge Says Post-Latiolais Asbestos Case Removal Timely

Mealey's (June 30, 2020, 1:27 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — Removing an asbestos negligence case prior to a recent en banc ruling by the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals would have been the very type of hasty and unnecessary removal frowned upon by the court, a federal judge in Louisiana said June 26 in denying remand (Booker W. Holmes, et al. v. Albert L. Bossier Jr., et al., No. 20-880, E.D. La., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 112180)....