Tire Companies Seek High Bar For Plaintiffs’ Standing In 6PPD Litigation

Tire manufacturers are asking a federal district court to set a high bar for fishery groups to continue their suit over the firms’ use of the anti-cracking chemical 6PPD, saying the “declarations” of facts supporting plaintiffs’ case do not meet the legal test for standing. But the fishery groups are countering that accepting those arguments would effectively make it much more difficult for litigants to show that they have standing at the outset of a lawsuit, and contradict how other...