Judge Proposes Post-Glass/Green Orders in Mississippi Silica Cases

JACKSON, Miss. - In the wake of a new order clarifying pleading requirements in Mississippi, a state court judge has begun distributing proposed rulings on the severance and possible transfer of numerous multi-plaintiff silica cases in the state. Irons, et al. v. Aearo, et al., No. 2002-307 (Miss. Cir. Ct., Claiborne Cty.).

According to a proposed order issued in January by Claiborne County Circuit Court Judge Lamar Pickard, the plaintiffs' claims will be severed into individual cases, and plaintiffs have 60 days to provide information to defendants and the court to determine whether the cases should be transferred out of …