Court Allows Auto Group To Argue ‘New’ Legal Claims In TSCA Asbestos Suit

A three-judge 5th Circuit panel is letting stand automakers’ amicus brief opposing EPA’s landmark TSCA rule for chrysotile asbestos that EPA and public-health advocates attacked as improperly adding a host of new legal questions to the case, teeing up what could be complex arguments over which of the group’s claims are properly before the court. In a four-page order issued Oct. 25, judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit backed a prior decision from a...