3M’s Failed Legal Move Leaves Firm Back With Judge It Criticized

3M Co., dealing with greater than 200,000 lawsuits accusing it of harming troopers with faulty fight earplugs, opens a brand new spherical of mediation Thursday overseen by the identical federal decide the commercial conglomerate has been feuding with since July.

The corporate blames US District Courtroom Choose M. Casey Rodgers for letting a multi-billion greenback authorized downside turn into so intractable that considered one of 3M’s models filed chapter in a failed effort to get the fits taken away from her. Rodgers accuses 3M of making an attempt to undermine the largest multi-district litigation case in US historical past and pledged to research the corporate’s motives. …