Plaintiffs Urge Court to Defer Ruling on Motions to Remand

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Plaintiffs in the silica MDL have asked that the court defer ruling on motions to remand the cases until such time that pretrial and discovery matters have been concluded and the cases are ready to be sent back to either federal or state court for trial. In Re: Silica Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1553 (S.D. Texas).

The motion was filed Jan. 12, in response to a request defendants made during a MDL status hearing exactly one month earlier, at which time they asked Judge Janis Graham Jack for additional time to brief issues related to …