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Multidistrict Litigation
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PrawfsBlawg
JOTWELL: Erbsen on Gluck & Burch on MDL
Main Sunday, May 23, 2021JOTWELL: Erbsen on Gluck & Burch on MDLThe new Courts Law essay comes from Allan Erbsen (Minnesota), reviewing Abbe R. Gluck & Elizabeth Chamblee Burch, MDL…
China Law Insight
郑州云办公室2021年系列文章 | 鼓励金融创新，助推多式联运——河南自贸区金融政策梳理和解析
By King & Wood
2021年4月13日，中共河南省委河南省人民政府发布《关于推进中国（河南）自由贸易试验区深化改革创新打造新时代制度型开放高地的意见》（“《意见》”），《意见》从目标任务、投资管理、贸易便利、产业体系、国际通道枢纽、区域合作、机制创新、组织实施等8个方面，明确了打造中国（河南）自由贸易试验区（“河南自贸区”）2.0版的时间表、任务书和路线图。
Expert Institute Insights
Judge Grants Defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment in Diabetes Drug MDL, Excludes Plaintiffs’ Experts
On March 9, 2021, a U.S. District Court judge in the Southern District of California granted the drug company defendants’ motion for summary judgment in a consolidated multidistrict litigation (MDL).…
Drug & Device Law
N.D. Indiana Dismisses Pelvic Mesh Negligent Misrepresentation and Unjust Enrichment Claims
If hard cases make bad law, big cases make really bad law. No cases are bigger than product liability multidistrict litigations. Some have populations dwarfing the towns where many of…
Drug & Device Law
Zantac Chronicles II – The Prevalence of Preemption
By Bexis
Another of the recent significant decisions from the In re Zantac MDL, No. 2924, addressed preemption – mostly but not entirely involving defendants who manufactured generic versions of the drug. …
Health Law Prof Blog
MDL Revolution
Abbe R. Gluck (Yale University), Elizabeth Chamblee Burch (University of Georgia), MDL Revolution; N.Y.U. L. Rev. (2021):Over the past 50 years, multidistrict litigation (MDL) has quietly revolutionized civil procedure. MDLs…
Drug & Device Law
Joinder Denied: Same Device But Still Too Different
Have you ever gone to a party and felt unwelcome? Neither have we, but the moving party in Bartis v. Biomet, Inc., No. 4:13-cv-00657, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21048 (E.D.…
Drug & Device Law
Pleading Preemption As A Defense In A Privacy Class Action
Critics have been known to accuse us of being too hard on product liability plaintiffs and too forgiving of defendants who develop medical products. We all have our biases, especially…
Drug & Device Law
Guest Post − Building A Better Bellwether
By Bexis
Today's guest post is by the Reed Smith team of Shana E. Russo, Jennifer A. Eppensteiner, and Kathy I. Oviedo. It is about multi-district litigation ("MDL") practice, and specifically, compares…
Napoli Shkolnik Blog
Milestone Class Settlement: AFFF MDL Litigation
Napoli Shkolnik lawyers representing individuals in the Town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, announced that they have reached an agreement in principal with Tyco Fire Products L.P., Chemguard, Inc., and ChemDesign, Inc.…