( October 5, 2026, 9:51 AM EDT) -- CHARLESTON, S.C. — A federal judge in South Carolina clarified that in a Sept. 15 denial of water utilities’ motion to reconsider a May partial denial of a joint motion to remand nine cases in an aqueous film-forming foam XE "aqueous film forming
foam" (AFFF) multidistrict litigation, he also denied the utilities’ request for interlocutory review....