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Litigation

Aug. 11, 2012

Changes in SF asbestos department draws praise

A recent change in San Francisco County Superior Court's asbestos department simplifies a case management system that was using orders from 30 years ago, leaving attorneys who try cases there cautiously optimistic.


By Saul Sugarman


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A recent change in San Francisco County Superior Court's asbestos department simplifies a case management system that was using court orders from 30 years ago, leaving attorneys who try cases there cautiously optimistic.


More than 40 of the former so-called general orders got the ax because they referred cases to organizations or people from the 1980s and 1990s that are no longer relevant to the ...

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