The Supreme Court refused to consider a Teflon manufacturer’s bid to keep fighting claims in multidistrict litigation that it’s liable for the health impacts of a forever chemical released by its plants.
In the case rejected on Monday, E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., a subsidiary of Corteva, Inc., argues the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was wrong to stop it from litigating certain negligence claims in civil lawsuits that were resolved by verdicts in three bellwether cases.
Bellwether trials are commonly used in multidistrict litigation to help litigants assess the strength of their cases and ...
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