( April 16, 2026, 8:41 AM EDT) -- KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A federal judge in Kansas has ruled that some claims in one of the cases that constitute a consolidated putative class action related to toxic chemical exposure are barred by a 10-year statute of repose but said that other plaintiffs have sufficiently pleaded causation by alleging that the defendant leaked high levels of ethylene oxide (EtO) and other chemicals into the environment....