California Court Won’t Review Ruling Limiting Genetic Testing In Asbestos Case

( March 10, 2025, 12:20 PM EDT) -- OAKLAND, Calif. — A California appellate court on March 7 denied a writ petition challenging a trial court’s ruling limiting genetic testing, which the petitioner claimed “undermines the search for truth” by improperly restricting discovery to only potentially admissible evidence and by eliminating the possibility that the testing could produce dispositive evidence of causation, according to a docket entry....