Judge Postpones Next MDL Case Set for Trial

CLEVELAND - Due to what the federal MDL judge calls recent discovery abuses in a recent MDL trial, the next case to go trial has been postponed. Solis v. Lincoln Electric Co., et al., No. 04-cv-17363; In re: Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation. MDL No. 1535. Case No. 1:03-cv-17000 (N.D. Ohio).

Saying she didn't want to "go through this again," Judge Kathleen M. O'Malley of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio - referring to the defendants' recent admittance of failing to timely produce documents to the plaintiffs - has postponed Darwin Peabody's from Aug. 15 trial …