Silica Order Could Affect Future Mass Tort Litigation - Law.com
Mary Alice Robbins writing for Texas Lawyer in July 2005 shows us that finally here is a judge who is exposing the questionable practices behind silicosis cases. As U.S. District Court Judge Janice Graham Jack of Corpus Cristi, Texas, puts it in her 249-page order in In Re Silica Products Liability Litigation., "In a majority of cases, these diagnoses were more the creation of lawyers than of doctors."
Further, Judge Jack, a former nurse, wrote in the order "[I]t is apparent that truth and justice had very little to do with these diagnoses -- otherwise more effort would have been devoted to ensuring they were accurate. Instead, these diagnoses were driven neither by health nor justice; they were manufactured for money."