MDL Plaintiff Says Discovery Process Abused and Impeded; Trial Continued

CLEVELAND - A welding fume plaintiff said on Aug. 18 that several defendants have abused and impeded the discovery process, intentionally violating a case management order that instructed the defendants to produce relevant documents by January 2004 in what is scheduled to be the first MDL trial to take place. In re: Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation. MDL Docket No. 1535. Case No. 1:03-cv-17000 (N.D. Ohio.).

Charles M. Ruth III says Hobart Brothers and ESAB Group attempt to 'obstruct the fair administration of justice' and delay his trial by just recently 'dumping some 7,200 pages of documents' on Ruth's attorneys. …