Lockheed Martin lost its bid to disqualify a plaintiff's lawyer from the asbestos MDL for ex parte communication, but it did win an award of sanctions.
In a case characterized as "tortured and contentious" by U.S. Magistrate Judge Faith Angell of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the lawyer representing the family of a man who had mesothelioma called the man's former supervisor, who is still employed by Lockheed Martin.
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