( November 4, 2026, 2:45 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana ordered an asbestos case dismissed on Nov. 3 after the parties notified the court that they had reached a compromise, just days after the judge said she would admit soil testing results because they were relevant to the defendants’ alternative asbestos exposure theory and it was irrelevant that some of the samples came from neighboring properties that the exposed individual never owned....