Pa. Judge Expands Earlier Order Allowing Benzene Defendants Access to Tissue Samples

PHILADELPHIA –– A Pennsylvania state court has granted a defense motion to substitute colon and bowel tissue samples for appendix tissue the defendants had previously requested –– and received –– access to in order to conduct genetic testing.

Sources told HarrisMartin that Judge Jacqueline F. Allen of the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas for Philadelphia County granted the motion on Dec. 17.

In a Dec. 4 motion, several defendants had asked Judge Allen to expand her original order to include testing on bowel and colon tissue samples. Judge Allen’s original order allowed defendants to access tissue samples after the defendants …