( July 20, 2026, 11:41 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — Ruling that General Electric Co. (GE) had “carried its burden to satisfy both the ‘acting under’ and ‘for or relating to’ elements of the federal officer removal statute,” a panel of the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s decision that remanded a polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) injury lawsuit to Massachusetts state court and remanded the case to federal district court to determine whether GE has set forth a “colorable federal defense” related to its manufacture and disposal of PCBs....