Defendants: Plaintiffs' Discovery Requests are Attempts to Divert Attention

CLEVELAND - In a defense submission regarding a recent court order instructing the defendants to produce data related to the Danish and Swedish epidemiological studies - which found no association between welding and Parkinson's disease - the defendants claim previous discovery requests by the plaintiffs have merely been attempts to divert the court's attention from the studies' finding. In re: Welding Fume Product Liability Litigation. MDL No. 1535. Case No. 1:03-cv-17000 (N.D. Ohio).

In their July 21 submission filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, the defendants say plaintiff discovery requests have sought to "avoid …