(March 21, 2018, 2:09 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A trial court improperly denied an 81-year-old asbestos lung cancer sufferer a preferential trial date after grafting the standard from one part of the state’s civil code on to another, a California court held March 20 (Ardella Fox, et al. v. The Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco, et al., No. A153672, Calif. App., 1st Dist.)....