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"                      <p class=\"imgtitle\">Moss</p>           PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - A Texas couple won't be allowed to file its asbestos lawsuit in Philadelphia.<br /><br />Deborah Gibson and her current husband Lark filed suit over her mesothelioma in September in the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas. The lawsuit was dismissed two months later.<br /><br />The Gibsons appealed, alleging the court did not take into consideration that several defendants marketed asbestos in Philadelphia and failed to follow case law favoring their choice of forum.<br /><br />\"(T)he (Pennsylania) Supreme Court (has) held the most compelling public interest factor faving dismissal is the enormous burden we already face in mass tort litigation,\" Judge Sandra Mazer Moss wrote Feb. 10.<br /><br />\"This burden is largely the result, it explained, of out-of-state plaintiffs who chose to file in Philadelphia.\"<br /><br />Moss is the coordinating judge of the court's Complex Litigation Center, which groups mass tort claims and puts them on trial schedule. Philadelphia has been named the No. 1 Judicial Hellhole by the American Tort Reform Foundation two years in a row.<br /><br />ATRF says Moss and another judge wanted to make the city attractive to plaintiffs attorneys for the purpose of boosting revenue.<br /><br />Moss noted that the plaintiffs can still file their claim in their home state. Gibson says she was exposed to asbestos from washing her father's, ex-husband's and current husband's clothing.<br /><br />All alleged exposure took place in Texas. All witnesses who would testify at trial are located in Texas.<br /><br />B.F. Goodrich's motion to dismiss was granted on Nov. 16.<br /><br /><em>From Legal Newsline: Reach John O'Brien by e-mail at jobrienwv@gmail.com.</em>"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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