(September 28, 2023, 1:08 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — A panel of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in long-running lead-based paint litigation for personal injuries involving 150 consolidated cases, as plaintiffs’ attorneys argued that a lower court’s ruling holding that they were prevented from bringing their claims for injury was “clear error” while attorneys for the defendants said issue preclusion doctrines apply to all plaintiffs and bind them from pursuing the litigation....