Employer Files Motion for Protective Order in Consolidated Silica Case

OKMULGEE, Okla. - A factory that employed several workers who allege in an Oklahoma lawsuit that they are suffering from lung disease as a result of exposure to silica has moved for a protective order that would limit the type of information that may be pursued by parties named in the case. Morris, et al. v. ACandS, Inc., et al., No. CJ-2002-699 (Okla. Dist. Ct., Okmulgee Cty.).

In a motion filed in Okmulgee County District Court, Anchor Glass Container Corporation seeks to apply the protective order - which it says would govern the 'methodology, scope and content of discovery' directed …