Ark. Federal Court Grants 2 Motions for Summary Judgment in Silica Case

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. –– An Arkansas federal court has granted two motions to dismiss made by defendants in a pending silica action on product identification grounds.

In text entries filed May 1 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas’ online docket, the court said the order was granting the motions for summary judgment filed by BASF and Whittaker Clark & Daniels Inc. “for the reasons argued in the motion.”

According to an April 27 final scheduling order, trial has been set in the matter for the week of Sept. 28.

In their original complaint, the …