La. Court Denies Motion for Protective Order on Procedural Grounds

NEW ORLEANS –– A Louisiana federal court has denied an unopposed motion for protective order involving benzene defendant Radiator Specialty’s documents, saying that the motion had not complied with the court’s procedures for filing documents under seal in civil cases.

The one-page order entered March 28 by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana further ordered all of the parties to communicate with the judge’s law clerk on April 2.

Audrey Millet filed the lawsuit as the legal representative of Robert C. Millet, who died in 2011, one month after he was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. …