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By joetort
Drug and Device Law Blog has an interesting post on Why The Changing Face Of The MDL Panel Won't Change The Outcome Of Your Transfer Motion, by guest blogger Pearson…
Drug & Device Law
Why The Changing Face Of The MDL Panel Won’t Change The Outcome Of Your Transfer Motion
By Bexis
This guest post was written by Pearson N. Bownas. Mr. Bownas is an associate resident in the Cleveland office of Jones Day. This post is entirely his work. It, of…
TortsProf Blog
What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas, Except that the JPML Presumably Keeps a Written Record
Yes, that's right, the JPML's May 31 session announcement [PDF] is out, and it's in Vegas. I regret to inform the good folks on the JPML that Prince's run at…
Drug & Device Law
MDL Choice of Law: Direct Filing Stipulations
By Bexis
We love the choice-of-law issues that arise in multidistrict litigation. Are we weird, or what? The most recent judge to wrestle with MDL choice-of-law issues is Judge Eldon Fallon in…
Drug & Device Law
Should Lexecon be overruled?
By Bexis
One of us had an eighth grade basketball coach who promised that, if we played on his team, we'd "eat basketball, sleep basketball, dream basketball!" (Yeah -- he was nuts.)…
Drug & Device Law
“Lexecon waivers”: Another prohibited MDL practice?
By Bexis
For thirty years, MDL transferee judges engaged in the practice of "self-transfer." A judge would preside over a coordinated MDL proceeding and then, after concluding the pretrial portion of the…
CAFA Law Blog
The United States District Court for the E.D. of Pennsylvania “dreams a little dream” suggesting an expansion of CAFA to multi-district mass tort litigation.
In re Zyprexa Products Liability Litigation, 04-MD-01596, Eastern District of New York, United States District Court (December 8, 2006). In this case, the court dreamed a little dream on a…
TortsProf Blog
JPML to Try to Avoid Falling in the Riverwalk
The hospitality industry in San Antonio is no doubt bracing for the arrival of the JPML hearing to be there in March. Torts-related matters on the hearing agenda (excluding those…
Drug & Device Law
Making Book on the MDL Panel
By Bexis
An interesting new article just appeared in print, if we do say so ourselves. One of your cohosts (Herrmann) and one of his colleagues at Jones Day (Pearson Bownas) published…
The Contingency
Fifth Circuit Holds MDL Transferee Judge Omnipresent
The Fifth Circuit denied a petition for writ of mandamus to compel a federal judge in Houston (S.D. Tex.) to rule on motions to intervene and to quash a subpoena. …