Documents From Refinery's Current Owner Are Sufficient to Justify Continuance, Appeals Court Rules

SAN FRANCISCO - A plaintiff who claimed he received insufficient responses to interrogatories from a defendant accused of causing his asbestos-related cancer was wrongly denied additional time to ascertain whether the moving defendant was present at the refinery where the alleged exposure took place, a California Appeals Court has ruled. Kinsman v. Fluor Corp., No. A093650 (Calif. App., First Dist.).

Reversing a trial court's award of summary judgment, the First District California Court of Appeal ruled May 9 that the plaintiffs' request for additional time to depose someone who could give the plaintiff more than what the interrogatories provided was …