Judge Orders Return of 'Privileged' Union Carbide Documents

ANGLETON, Texas - A plaintiffs firm in Texas has won the right to keep certain Union Carbide documents available for use in asbestos litigation after the documents were declared privileged by a California judge whose former law partner represented the company. Mims v. ACandS, Inc., et al., No. 15642 (Texas Dist. Ct., Brazoria Cty.)

In an order issued Sept. 13, Judge J. Ray Gayle III of the Brazoria County District Court granted a motion by Dallas-based Waters & Kraus to declare the documents not privileged.

'Although plaintiffs' counsels have never stated to this court how the documents in question came …