DuPont: Plaintiffs Offer ‘No Legitimate Reason’ Why Court Shouldn’t Drop 60 Plaintiffs from C-8 Litigation

CLEVELAND –– DuPont has backed its motion to dismiss “over 60 improperly joined plaintiffs” from cases pending in the national C-8 personal injury multidistrict litigation docket, arguing that the plaintiffs have offered no legitimate reason in their opposition briefs why they shouldn’t be dropped from the case.

In a July 10 reply brief filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, DuPont maintained that the plaintiffs have failed to prove that the claims arose out of the same transaction or occurrence and, further, that a 2004 settlement agreement in which all the plaintiffs were parties does …