Grenfell Tower Residents’ Petition For Rehearing Denied By 3rd Circuit

Mealey's (October 26, 2022, 11:26 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a petition for rehearing or rehearing en banc of a panel decision that affirmed the dismissal of a strict product liability case against the manufacturers of allegedly flammable panels that were used in London’s Grenfell Tower, which burned down in 2017, and removed a condition placed on the dismissal that could have allowed the case to return to the trial court, rejecting former tower residents’ arguments that the panel erred by failing to correct the lower court’s application of Pennsylvania product liability law, by removing the dismissal condition and by finding the standard of review used by the trial court permissible....