Parties In Appeal Over Asbestos Trust Expert’s Audit Finish Briefing

Mealey's (February 20, 2024, 2:48 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — Parties involved in a dispute between a B-reader and a company that performed an audit that eventually led to his exclusion from an asbestos trust claim submission process briefed the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on whether litigation privilege precluded the suit and whether there was any link between the audit and his exclusion that would give the trial court jurisdiction....