Judge: Asbestos Widow May Dig Into French Company’s New York Connections

Mealey's (March 4, 2020, 2:12 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A widow is entitled to jurisdictional discovery into whether a French company’s contacts with New York give the state jurisdiction over her asbestos case, a federal judge held March 3 (Elodie Paroni, et al. V. Alstom SA, et al., No. 19-1034, S.D. N.Y., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 36610)....