1st Circuit Denies Petition for Rehearing in Benzene-Related Causation Dispute

BOSTON –– The 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has denied a petition for rehearing en banc, declining the chance to take a second look at a dispute over specific causation testimony in a benzene exposure suit.

In the two-page order issued on June 13, the 1st Circuit said that the “petition for rehearing en banc having been submitted to the active judges of this court and a majority of the judges not having voted that the case be heard en banc, it is ordered that the petition for rehearing and petition for rehearing en banc be denied.”

The plaintiffs …