( December 18, 2024, 2:36 PM EST) -- OAKLAND, Calif. — After a couple warned that experts on both sides of an asbestos case are unavailable and that continuing with the existing schedule would threaten to delay the case, a California judge issued a tentative ruling advancing a hearing on reopening expert discovery. Separately, the plaintiffs appealed a decision granting summary judgment to asbestos fiber supplier Union Carbide Corp....