Smith Law Says Beasley Allen Suit Over Talc Dust Up Doesn’t Upend Its Action

( January 28, 2025, 8:45 AM EST) -- JACKSON, Miss. — A law firm told a federal judge in Mississippi that its lawsuit against a second asbestos-talc firm was more akin to one for defamation and that neither res judicata nor the first-to-file rule required dismissal or transfer of the action....