5th Circuit Denies ADAO Request To Restart Asbestos Suit, Join Arguments

The 5th Circuit has denied a request from the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization’s (ADAO) to lift its stay of pending legal challenges to EPA’s TSCA risk management rule on chrysotile asbestos and set combined oral arguments with pending litigation over the TSCA methylene chloride rule. A three-judge panel of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit issued an April 8 denial of ADAO’s request in Texas Chemistry Council et al. v. EPA . Circuit Judges Carl E. Stewart, Catharina...