Judge's Letter Sealed His Fate
in Resolving Future Friction Products Claims
July 29, 2002
DOCUMENTS
- Defendants' Reply
- Letter
Why the Fifth Circuit Said It Wants Someone Other Than Judge Samuel B. Kent Presiding Over the Auto Makers' Removal and Transfer Efforts
icTendicwo weeks before the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued its decision barring U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent from hearing all future friction products claims involving the Big Three Automakers, he penned a letter to the federal appeals panel.
In it, the Southern District of Texas judge not only posited his own argument for why two asbestos cases removed to his federal court had no legal business being …
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