Magistrate Judge Quashes Asbestos-Talc Subpoena, Will Consider Sanctions

Mealey's (January 5, 2023, 12:09 PM EST) -- NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — An employer of an expert responsible for an asbestos-talc study successfully moved to quash a subpoena, with a federal magistrate judge in Virginia finding the fact that experts in the case relied on the study too tenuous a connection for the discovery in question and saying he would consider sanctions....