Calif. Court Denies Lumber Liquidators’ Efforts to Stay All Proceedings in Federal Case

SAN FRANCISCO –– A California court overseeing one of the first Lumber Liquidators Chinese-made flooring suits has denied defense efforts to stay all proceedings in the matter until the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation determines whether to grant a petition to create a coordinated docket for the litigation.

In an April 1 order, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, opined that a complete stay of all pretrial proceedings would “not promote judicial economy.”

The lawsuit, filed by Joseph Michael Balero late last year in California state court, was among the first to allege that Lumber Liquidators …