In a wrongful death and survival action, plaintiffs, the surviving husband and children of decedent, sued defendant, alleging decedent's asbestosis and subsequent death were caused by asbestos fibers her husband brought home from defendant's facility.

Reconsideration of Verdict Award Denied; Defendant Presented No Basis for Reconsideration

Appellant, an alternative asset manager specializing in high yield credit, sued appellees, a real estate investment trust, for defamation, business disparagement, tortious interference with existing contract, and tortious interference with prospective business relations.

Plaintiff moved for recusal based on document metadata showing special master staff as the "author" of several court opinions and court found a motion for recusal based on hidden fields of system metadata was not reasonable in light of the visible content of the court's written decisions and the author field of the metadata in the documents at issue stemmed from the use of the "saved as" function to create templates prepared earlier in the case. Motion denied.