Defendants File Objections to Plaintiffs' Proposed MDL Case Management Order

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Defendants in the silica products liability MDL have filed objections to the plaintiffs' proposed case management order, arguing that it minimizes the MDL Court's role in preparing the cases for trial and unnecessarily places the burden of discovery and pretrial proceedings on the transferor courts. In Re: Silica Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1553 (S.D. Texas).

In a brief filed Sept. 10, the defendants take issue with the majority of the plaintiffs' proposal, going so far as to state that the plaintiffs on Sept. 2 filed a dramatically different case management plan than was agreed to …