Kennedy v. Lasting Paints, Inc.

HARRELL, Judge.

I

Nearly ten years ago, seven minor plaintiffs (Reginald Smith, Jr., Shatara Smith, Shatavia Smith, Christian Brantley, Brandon Hamilton, Gerald Shorter, and Octavia Shorter) from four families (the Smiths, the Brantleys, the Hamiltons, and the Shorters) filed a complaint in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City. Based on exposure to the element, lead, these four families sought to recover damages from twenty-one defendant companies on varied products liability-related claims. 1 The fifteen-count complaint, filed 20 September 1999, alleges that the defendant companies are liable…