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Multidistrict Litigation
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The Contingency
MDL Panel to Hear Transfer Motions July 31
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation will convene in the city by the bay on July 31. Their task? To do the important business of "centralizing" complex cases before individual…
Mass Tort Defense
MDL Court Holds To Pretrial Deadlines For Next Bellwether Case In Welding Fumes
By Sean Wajert
The MDL court in the In re Welding Fume Products Liability Litigation, MDL-1535 (N.D. Ohio) recently issued an interesting Order about mediation. Not
Drug & Device Law
From The Mouth of Plaintiffs’ Counsel . . .
By Bexis
We'll report here on one last thing that we heard at the ALI Mass Litigation conference in Charleston last month -- because they are words that should be in the…
Drug & Device Law
Why Congress Has Left Lexecon Alone
By Bexis
Lexecon v. Milberg Weiss, 523 U.S. 26 (1998), is, of course, the Supreme Court case that held that MDL transferee judges lack the power to try cases that were originally…
Drug & Device Law
On The MDL Panel and Transparency
By Bexis
There were a lot of hotshots at the ALI-ABA course on "Mass Litigation" in Charleston, SC, a couple of weeks ago.One of those hotshots mused that it's become awfully hard…
Drug & Device Law
The Limits of MDL Common Benefit Funds
By Bexis
After the MDL Panel coordinates a bunch of product liability cases, the transferee court is likely to appoint lead and liaison counsel for plaintiffs. Those lawyers often take the lead…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Recovering the Social Value of Jurisdictional Redundancy
By joetort
I just posted a piece that I wrote for the Tulane Law Review Symposium on the Problem of Multidistrict Litigation on bepress (download here) and SSRN (download here). The piece…
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
MDL Transfer After Section 1404 Denial
By Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
If a trial court denies a party's section 1404 venue-transfer motion, should that ruling preclude the Judicial MDL panel from transferring under section 1407? Beck and Herrmann discussed the issue…
Drug & Device Law
MDL Transfer After Section 1404 Denial?
By Bexis
Here's a weird one:A party files a motion with a trial judge to transfer a case to a different venue. That motion is made under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1404, for…
The Contingency
The Best Job in the Federal Judiciary
Blawgletter argued a few weeks ago to a bench that few practicing lawyers know much about -- the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Repeat appearers call it simply "the…