Judge Allows Deposition Of Former Attorney Over Asbestos-Talc Bottles

Mealey's (March 9, 2022, 10:57 AM EST) -- HARRISON, Ark. — Defendants may depose an attorney previously involved in a family’s asbestos case about two bottles of talc she obtained during a visit to their home, the chain of custody of those bottles and whether they are the same bottles that are now in an expert’s possession but should narrowly tailor their questioning, a federal magistrate judge in Arkansas said March 2 after previously sanctioning plaintiffs’ current counsel for a “well-documented pattern of discovery abuses” in a separate order....