One judge starts draining fetid legal swamp - Precision Plain English and Washington Examiner
More on the judge who upon receiving lawsuits “from some 10,000 silicosis plaintiffs to her court, seeking to have them combined for trial, returned most of the cases to the state courts where they originated, mainly in Mississippi. But not before dredging up a swamp of corruption on the plaintiffs' side.”
This Washington Examiner article from 2005 goes on to point out that “Just days after Jack's June ruling, a group of companies facing silicosis lawsuits in Ohio cited it to challenge plaintiffs' claims. They noted that more than half of the 1,750 plaintiffs had previously filed asbestosis suits. Experts had testified in Jack's court that contracting both silicosis and asbestosis is all but medically unheard of. Far more likely, plaintiff lawyers were recycling asbestosis claimants in silicosis cases.”