Parties in Next C-8 MDL Trial Exchange Motions on Admissibility, Causation

CLEVELAND –– Parties in the next C-8 exposure multidistrict litigation trial have exchanged briefing on a number of motions, with the defendant contending that the plaintiff has failed to establish specific causation and the plaintiff maintaining that DuPont continues to challenge general causation in violation of a prior settlement agreement.

In a Feb. 25 case management order, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio noted that trial in the underlying proceedings has been pushed back by one week, to May 31.

According to the plaintiffs’ original complaint, David Freeman developed testicular cancer as a result of …