Judge: Bartender’s Vague Asbestos Witness List Didn’t Trigger Removal

Mealey's (December 10, 2020, 12:57 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A discovery response listing potential witnesses without any identifying information about how they related to a case alleging take-home asbestos exposures and exposures while employed as a bartender did not put a shipyard on notice of the case’s removability, a federal judge in Louisiana said Dec. 7 in denying remand (Ethel Sampey v. Huntington Ingalls Inc, et al., No. 20-2779, E.D. La., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 228689)....