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Multidistrict Litigation
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Drug & Device Law
MDL Master Complaint — What’s the Point?
Is the question we are asking ourselves after reading Butler v. 3M Company, 2024 WL 5054884 (S.D. Ohio Dec. 9, 2024). Because if plaintiffs get to amend their complaints post-remand…
Drug & Device Law
Taxotere MDL Dismisses Cases for Failure to Respond Timely to Suggestions of Death
Just about three months ago, we blogged about Rule 25 dismissals in the Bair Hugger MDL, and today we bring you more of the same from Taxotere. Federal Rule of…
Drug & Device Law
Taxotere Lone Pine Continues to Stand
By Susanna Moldoveanu, Adaeze Ashiedu
Today we revisit the Lone Pine order for the Taxotere MDL. We previously discussed the entry of the Lone Pine order and the court’s denial of plaintiffs’ motion to reconsider…
Drug & Device Law
MDL Common Benefit Funds Cannot Pilfer from Non-MDL Cases
In re Hair Relaxer Mkt. Practices & Prods. Liab. Litig., 2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 150916 (N.D. Illinois Aug. 22, 2024), is a fairly interesting decision on MDL procedure. We say…
Product Perspective: Complex Tort & Product Law
Fed. R. Civ. P. 16.1: MDL Guidance in Products Liability Cases
By Adam Buddenbohn, Lauren Walter
In 1968, the Multidistrict Litigation Act provided the framework for multidistrict litigation (MDL); where civil actions involve “one or more common questions of fact . . . pending in different…
Drug & Device Law
Bair Hugger MDL Court Dismisses Cases for Failures to File Timely Suggestions of Death
We are in the midst (at least we hope we are that far) of wrapping up an MDL settlement. As is typical, the settlement envisions a minimum participation rate After…
eDiscovery Today Blog
Subpoena-Related Motions Consolidated to MDL Court: eDiscovery Case Law
By Doug Austin
In the case In re Uber Techs., Inc. Passenger Sexual Assault Litig., California Magistrate Judge Lisa J. Cisneros determined that her court had the authority to hear subpoena-related motions, and…
Drug & Device Law
Gardasil MDL Court Dismisses Plaintiffs Who Had Not Timely Filed in Vaccine Court
We are not speaking for anyone else (clients, colleagues, our firm, etc.) when we say that drug and device product liability cases should be patterned after the Vaccine Act (42…
Drug & Device Law
New Rule 16.1 – Better Than Nothing, But Not by a Lot
By Bexis
As many of you no doubt already know, the federal judiciary’s Committee on Rules of Practice & Procedure gave its final approval to new Fed. R. Civ. P. 16.1, concerning…
Drug & Device Law
More from the Zantac MDL – Census Registries and Enforcement of Forum Selection Certifications
By Eric Hudson
This post is not from the Reed Smith, Dechert, or Holland & Knight side of the blog. We’re pretty sure no one teaches about MDL census registries in law school.…