New York Justice: Asbestos Study Subpoena Challenge Wasn’t Contempt

( March 27, 2025, 8:28 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — An asbestos expert’s and hospital’s delay in producing the identities of asbestos-talc study participants while they challenged a ruling requiring compliance with the subpoena constitutes zealous advocacy rather than clear disobedience, a New York justice said in declining to find contempt on the grounds that doing so would “chill such advocacy” and that attorney fees weren’t appropriate....