5th Circuit Refuses to Stay Remand Order in Take-Home Asbestos Exposure Suit

NEW ORLEANS –– The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has declined to grant a motion to stay a remand order entered in an asbestos take-home exposure suit, finding in part that the defendant had failed to show a causal nexus between any federal activity and the plaintiff’s father’s exposure to asbestos.

In the June 19 opinion, the appellate court also determined that Huntington Ingalls Inc. had failed to provide documentation of how precise of general its specifications for using asbestos-containing products were.

The plaintiffs asserted in their lawsuit that Mary Jane Wilde was exposed to …