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Article: Federal Judge Announces Breakthrough Agreement in Chinese Drywall Litigation.
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- China Weekly News
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- November 17, 2009
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Judge Eldon E. Fallon announced that Knauf Plasterboard (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. (KPT), one of the Chinese drywall manufacturers involved in recent defective drywall complaints, has offered to accept service of process of an omnibus class action complaint. This will allow claimants with KPT drywall to consolidate their claims in one lawsuit against KPT.
All federal litigation involving defective drywall products has been consolidated in the multidistrict litigation, MDL 2047, pending in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, before Judge Fallon. Since its inception in June of 2009, the litigation has been proceeding rapidly, with the ...