Topic
Multidistrict Litigation
456 published works
The Contingency
JPML Sets Two-Day Hearing Session; Record 35 MDLs on Docket
Gene Snyder U.S. Courthouse and Customhouse in Louisville. Construction ended in 1932 . . . a Depression year. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has summoned lawyers handling 35 different MDL…
The Contingency
MDL Panel Starts Moving Cases from March Session
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has begun ruling on transfer motions it heard on March 26 in San Diego. The Panel granted transfer and centralization in five MDL matters,…
Drug & Device Law
Another Look At Some Recent Scholarship
By Bexis
We see all these fascinating law review articles appear in print, and we plan to read the articles and react intelligently to them.Then life gets in the way.Instead of actually…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Alternative MDL-management Method
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Click the article's title to download The Quasi-Class Action Method of Managing Multi-District Litigations: Problems and a Proposal, authored by Profs. Charles Silver and Geoffrey Miller. The abstract follows: This…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Managing Mass Tort MDLs
By joetort
A new article on managing mass tort multidistrict litigations -- Charles Silver and Geoffrey Miller, The Quasi-Class Action Method of Managing Multidistrict Litigation -- has just been posted on SSRN. …
Drug & Device Law
Pre-Service Removal — For The Umpteenth Time
By Bexis
We're fixated on the subject: When a plaintiff files a complaint in state court that names both residents and non-residents of the forum state as defendants, can the non-resident defendant…
The Contingency
JPML to Gather in San Diego Mar. 26
Edward J. Schwartz U.S. Courthouse, San Diego, California. The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has set a whopping nine matters on its docket for March 26, when Their Honors will…
The Contingency
BOA ARS MDL SFO
The Bank of America (BOA) auction rate securities (ARS) multidistrict litigation (MDL) goes go to San Francisco (SFO) . In re Bank of Am. Auction Rate Securities (ARS) Marketing Litig., MDL No. 2014 (J.P.M.L.…
The Contingency
JPML Hurls Third MDL to S.D.N.Y.
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation yesterday ordered In re Fannie Mae Securities and Employee Retirement Incomne Security Act (ERISA) Litig., MDL No. 2013, to the U.S. District Court for…
The Contingency
JPML Starts Transferring Cases from January Session
The Judicial Panel on Multi-District Litigation has commenced issuing transfer orders in the matters it considered at the January 29 session in Fort Myers, Florida: MDL No. 2005 -- In…