Defendant Moves to Create Statewide, Regional Asbestos MDLs

GALVESTON, Texas - A defendant in the asbestos litigation has filed motions in state court in Texas seeking transfer of all asbestos cases to statewide and regional consolidated dockets. Pyle v. ACandS, Inc., et al., No. 01-CV1140 (Texas Dist. Ct., Galveston Cty.).

The motions seek the appointment of judges to oversee what Union Carbide Corp. calls meaningful pretrial coordination in asbestos cases pending statewide and in eight regions throughout Texas.

'Given the number of asbestos cases that are currently pending in this administrative judicial region, and across the state, the assignment of a single judge for this region to …