Court Won’t Reconsider Allowing Auto Alliance Amicus Brief In Asbestos Ban Cases

( November 25, 2024, 8:51 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an unpublished order declined to reconsider a ruling admitting an amicus curiae brief in consolidated cases raising various challenges where parties claim that the recent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule instituting a rolling banning on the use of chrysotile asbestos in the United States goes both too far and not far enough....