King v. Block Drug Company, Inc. et al

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI
EASTERN DIVISION
LAKEYA KING, as Personal 	)
Representative of the Estate of 	)
Latoya Mays, 	)
)
Plaintiff, 	)
)
v. 	) 	No. 4:25 CV 1645 CDP
)
BLOCK DRUG COMPANY, INC., 	)
et al., 	)
)
Defendants. 	)
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
This case is before the Court on review of the file following removal.
Plaintiff Lakeya King brought this action in the Circuit Court of St. Louis
City, Missouri, alleging that her sister, decedent Latoya Mays, suffered personal
injury on account of her exposure to defective and unreasonably dangerous
asbestos-containing talc powder that defendants mined, milled, designed,
manufactured, sold, supplied, purchased, distributed, and/or marketed. King is the
personal representative of decedent Mays’ estate. Defendant PTI Union, LLC,
removed the case to this Court on November 5, 2025, invoking diversity
jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a). Because various exhibits to State-court
filings were not included in the record PTI Union filed upon removal, I will order
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PTI Union to supplement the record with complete copies of the relevant
documents, inclusive of their exhibits. See 28 U.S.C. § 1447(b).
Accordingly,
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that within five (5) days of the date of this
Order, defendant PTI Union, LLC, shall supplement its Notice of Removal with
complete copies of the following documents filed in State court:
• 	Defendants Minerals Technologies Inc. and Specialty Minerals Inc.’s
“Notice of Stipulation and Agreed Order Extending Order (I)
Declaring that the Automatic Stay Prohibits Certain Actions Against
Non-Debtors or, in the Alternative, (II) Preliminarily Enjoining Such
Actions Pursuant to 11 U.S.C. § 105,” with attached Exhibits A and
B; and
• 	Defendant Stephan Co.’s “Motion to Dismiss for Lack of Personal
Jurisdiction,” with attached Exhibit A.
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CATHERINE D. PERRY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Dated this 18th day of November, 2025.
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