Mississippi High Court Backs Decision Not to Sanction Silica Counsel

JACKSON, Miss. -Â The Mississippi Supreme Court has upheld a trial judge's refusal to sanction a plaintiffs' law firm for filing thousands of silica claims that defendants said were based on 'sham' medical diagnoses, HarrisMartin Publishing is reporting. Choctaw Inc., et al. v. Campbell-Cherry-Harrison-Davis and Dove, No. 2006-CA-01621-SCT (Miss. Sup. Ct.).

In a decision issued Oct. 4, the state's highest court ruled that Judge Lee J. Howard did not abuse his discretion when he refused to adopt the guidance of federal silica MDL Judge Janis Graham Jack, who before remanding the cases for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, suggested that …