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Letter to the Editor

Mar. 8, 2012

Article on asbestos case raises non-issue

A reader responds to "Asbestos case leads to application of political question doctrine."

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COLUMN

"Asbestos case leads to application of political question doctrine" (Feb. 8) is at best, the result of weak memory and poor legal research.

Even the casual observer of the last 35 or more years of asbestos litigation, a litigation in which I've represented plaintiffs for over 30 years, would likely wonder, upon reading this article, how so many cases had been litigated without the issue of the government's alleged "prefe...

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