Judge Dismisses Claims Against all Remaining Defendants

BATON ROUGE, La. -- A Louisiana federal magistrate judge has signed an order dismissing a benzene case as to all remaining defendants without prejudice. Leger, et al. v. Exxon Mobil Corp., et al. No. 06-502 (M.D. La.).

The order was entered on May 15 in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana, just one day after the plaintiffs had filed a motion to dismiss without prejudice claims as asserted against the remaining defendants in the acute myelogenous leukemia case.

Harold and his wife Wanda claim that Harold's employment at Marathon Oil for more than 10 years …