Plaintiffs Ask for Deposition of Colorado Lawyer Tied to Gitlin X-Ray Study

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Plaintiffs have filed a motion for letters rogatory in a Texas silica case, seeking permission to take the deposition of a Colorado attorney who they say was instrumental in a study that aimed at casting doubt on the reliability of X-ray diagnoses in asbestos cases. Karstens v. American Optical Corp., et al., No. 03-03177 (Texas Dist. Ct., Nueces Cty.).

The motion, filed Sept. 12 in Nueces County District Court, requests permission to depose the Colorado attorney so that plaintiffs can counter allegations based on the study's results, which are being used to discredit numerous silica and …