Mass. Federal Court Grants Motion to Compel in Part in Pending Benzene Case

BOSTON –– A Massachusetts federal court overseeing a benzene action has granted a motion to compel filed by the plaintiffs, ruling that defendant Berryman Products Inc. must produce all responsive depositions in prior litigation and must outline the steps necessary to make confidential depositions available under prior protective orders.

In the Jan. 29 electronic order entered in the online docket for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, Judge Allison D. Burroughs wrote that, with regard to confidential depositions that are covered under protective orders, “Berryman is to do what is required under each protective order to make …