A federal judge in Newark has denied a motion by New York-based Cahill, Gordon & Reindel and two of its attorneys seeking to be dismissed from a putative class action suit claiming they conspired with a client to destroy and fabricate evidence in thousands of asbestos injury cases. The judge also denied motions to dismiss Cahill Gordon’s alleged accomplice in the fraud, BASF Catalysts, along with two former in-house lawyers for the company.
The plaintiffs sufficiently stated facts to support claims of fraudulent concealment, spoliation, fraud and civil conspiracy against the defendants. U.S. District Judge Jose Linares of the District of New Jersey said in an April 5 ruling in Williams v. BASF Catalysts Inc.. His ruling follows a decision by U.S. District Judge Stanley Chesler in 2012 dismissing the case in its entirety and a partial reversal of that decision in 2014 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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