Plaintiffs Fight Discovery Plan, PR Campaign Against Silica Claims

OAKLAND, Calif. - Backed by recent newspaper headlines and a Republican-led administration, defendants in California are taking a hard, but unfair, line in their requests for discovery from plaintiffs in dozens of silica cases there, plaintiffs allege in a brief filed recently. Bradley v. A-1 Aggregates, et al., No. RG05214083 (Calif. Super. Ct., Alameda Cty.).

A March 16 status report filed in Alameda County Superior Court reveals that defendants and plaintiffs in at least 18 silica cases are no closer to resolving disagreements over discovery procedures than they were a month ago, when plaintiffs accused defendants of requesting discovery from …