9-Year Delay In Asbestos Case Warranted Dismissal, Court Affirms

( August 13, 2025, 12:38 PM EDT) -- JACKSON, Miss. — A nine-year period where a plaintiff litigated asbestos bankruptcy issues in a separate court but took no substantive steps in her tort litigation in Mississippi warranted a trial court’s dismissal of the action in its entirety for lack of prosecution, the Mississippi Court of Appeals said Aug. 12 in affirming....

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