5th Circuit: Enclave Doctrine Bars Asbestos-Based Military Housing Claims

( July 24, 2025, 3:04 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A magistrate judge properly concluded that the federal enclave doctrine barred a host of claims in a dispute over asbestos and other contamination of military housing and that claims under Texas consumer protection law did not fall within an exception, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel said affirming a summary judgment ruling in a recently published opinion....