Unimin Bag Found on Eve of Trial Prompts Appeal, Motion to Stay

JACKSON, Miss. - A silica defendant that claimed it was dismissed from a case, then reintroduced on the eve of trial when a bag of the company's sand was found at the plaintiff's work site, has been dismissed from the case after urging a state Supreme Court to put the trial on hold. Unimin Corp. v. Richards, et al., No. 2004-M-366 (Miss. Sup. Ct.).

Sources told HarrisMartin Publishing that defendant Unimin Corp. was dismissed with prejudice from the case on March 4, less than two weeks after it filed an emergency motion to stay the trial court proceedings in a …