Mealey's (May 3, 2023, 9:50 AM EDT) -- SAN DIEGO — Proceedings in an appeal over a defense verdict for a boiler company in an asbestos case multiplied after the plaintiff “vexatiously” attempted to have the court take judicial notice of a years-old vacated order from a different case in a “blatant personal attack,” a company tells the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in seeking sanctions. But in response, the plaintiff tells the court that the order was vacated to facilitate a settlement and is evidence of the defense counsel’s misleading conduct....