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Multidistrict Litigation
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The Contingency
MDL Panel Meets Thursday in Portland
If you planned to argue a transfer motion to the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, you'd best start getting yourself to Portland, Oregon. The JPML scheduled 16 motions -- MDL Nos.…
Mass Tort Defense
iPhone MDL Created
By Sean Wajert
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has issued an order consolidating 12 putative class actions alleging that Apple Inc.’s iPhon
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Certification Denied in St. Jude Heart Implant MDL
By joetort
The U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota recently issued a ruling denying a third attempt at class certification in a consumer fraud MDL alleging material omissions by a manufacturer of…
Mass Tort Defense
JPML Declines to Consolidate Metoclopramide Litigation
By Sean Wajert
Some have expressed the sentiment that the the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation always grants requests for MDL status. In reality, that is n
The Contingency
JPML Roundup (Update)
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has issued 24 25 Transfer Orders from its two-day session last month in Louisville, Kentucky. District courts with "Southern" in their names triumphed, getting…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Sherman on Aggregate Litigation
By joetort
Edward Sherman (Tulane) one of the most experienced scholars in the area of complex litigation has posted "An MDL Model for Resolving Complex Litigation if a Class Action Is Not…
Construction & Transition Litigation Law Blog
Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation Sends Chinese Drywall Cases To New Orleans For Pre-Trial Work
Yesterday, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred 10 Chinese drywall cases to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana for coordinated pretrial proceedings. The JPML said…
Mass Tort Defense
Court Refuses To Consolidate Class Action Into Lexapro MDL
By Sean Wajert
A federal court last week rejected an attempt to consolidate a newly filed proposed class action over Lexapro and Celexa with the multidistrict litiga
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Plaintiffs’ Teflon Class Actions Against Dupont Don’t Stick
By joetort
As Allison Frankel reports at AmLaw Litigation Daily, plaintiffs in the Teflon MDL proceedings have filed a joint motion to drop their consumer-fraud class-action cases. Dupont understandably has high praise…
Drug & Device Law
On Lexecon Waivers
By Bexis
We've recently been thinking about Lexecon waivers.(Yeah, yeah: We were thinking about sex, drugs, and Lexecon waivers.)You know the story: Lexecon v. Milberg Weiss, 523 U.S. 26 (1998), holds that…