Foster Wheeler LLC v. Superior Court
Petitioner Foster Wheeler LLC is the defendant in two separate asbestos cases that were consolidated for trial after voir dire had already begun in one of the cases. Two days after the court ordered the cases consolidated, petitioner filed a petition for writ of mandate seeking immediate relief from the trial courts order of October 16, 2007, consolidating the cases entitled Jersey Gray and Shirley Gray v. Asbestos Defendants
(B-P), San Francisco Superior Court Case No. CGC-07-274042 (hereafter Gray case) and Judy Oxford, et al. v. Asbestos Defendants (B-P), San Francisco Superior Court Case No. CGC-05-440328 (hereafter Oxford case), for trial. Pending determination of the petition, we issued a temporary stay of the October 16 order consolidating the cases for trial and requested real parties in interest to file points and authorities in opposition to the petition. Plaintiff real parties in interest have filed a brief in opposition to the petition, and two defendant real parties in interest have filed briefs in support of the petition.
The temporary stay of the order previously imposed is hereby dissolved. Petitioner is awarded costs. (Cal. Rules of Court, rule 8.490(m).)
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