Judge Sets Tuesday Status Conference in RF Radiation Case in La.

U.S. District Judge James Cain for Western Louisiana in Lake Charles set a telephonic status conference for Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. CDT on the April 2021 complaint alleging that the cellphone industry has worked to conceal and suppress information showing that many handsets don’t comply with the FCC’s specific absorption rate limitations for how much RF radiation is absorbed by phone users, according to a text order in docket 2:21-cv-00923. The widow and two sons of Pastor Frank Walker allege that this led to his death from brain cancer. The defendants, including a multitude of device manufacturers, plus CTIA and TIA, filed their briefs last week in which they argued that the case should be dismissed because it is preempted by federal law (see 2210180078).