Mealey's (February 16, 2022, 11:55 AM EST) -- CHARLESTON, S.C. — A judge’s failure to recuse himself from an asbestos case in which he held the stock of three of the defendants before him violated federal law, but because the plaintiff voluntarily dismissed the defendants and a challenged expert exclusion did not involve those companies, reviving the case is not warranted, a federal judge in South Carolina said Jan. 6....