Judge Sinks Asbestos Defendant’s Harbor Workers’ Preemption Declaration Effort

Mealey's (March 29, 2022, 9:32 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana on March 17 dismissed an action seeking a declaration that the Longshore Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act preempts a state court asbestos action, saying that even construing the request for relief as “prospective” required “impermissibly interfering with the ongoing state proceedings.”...