Defendants Looking to Halt Transfer of Claims to Drywall MDL

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Defendants named in defective drywall actions in two states have moved to vacate an order that transferred the cases to the federal MDL in New Orleans, saying the claims are unrelated to others that were sent to the coordinated docket. In Re: Chinese-Manufactured Drywall Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 2047 (JPML).

Venture Supply Inc. and the Porter-Blaine Corp. argue in a motion filed before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation that with the exception of one foreign defendant, the cases - one filed in Virginia and another from North Carolina - share no common issues of …