MDL Judge Cites Statutory Time Requirement in Remand of Silica Case

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The federal MDL judge has remanded the claims of a Mississippi sandblaster who sued 24 defendants in a silica personal injury suit. West v. 3M Co., et al., No. 06-002 (S.D. Texas).

Judge Janis Graham Jack remanded the case after determining that there was insufficient evidence presented on behalf of the removing defendant to indicate that the notice of removal had been joined by defendants within 30 days of service of process on the first-served defendant.

Sources told HarrisMartin Publishing that with the remand of Kenneth West's case to the Claiborne County Circuit Court, …