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Multidistrict Litigation
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Searcy Law Blog
What is New in MultiDistrict Litigation? — September Hearing
Hip Implants Gone Wrong The next hearing session of the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (“JPML”) is scheduled for September 29, 2022, in St. Louis, Missouri. Five matters…
Expert Institute Insights
Plaintiffs Win Second Bellwether Trial in the C.R. Bard Hernia Mesh Litigation
Hernia mesh products—medical devices used to repair torn hernias—are big business, with over one million implantations done each year. However, with their popularity also comes a high frequency of complications.…
PrawfsBlawg
Call for Abstracts: Complex Litigation Ethics Conference at UC Hastings
Main Wednesday, June 01, 2022Call for Abstracts: Complex Litigation Ethics Conference at UC HastingsThe Center for Litigation and Courts and Huntington National Bank are excited to announce a call for…
Drug & Device Law
Another Reason MDL Defendants Should Not Waive Their Lexecon Rights
By Bexis
This post is from the non-Dechert side of the blog. From the first time that we discussed Lexecon, Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, 523 U.S. 26 (1998),…
Drug & Device Law
Plaintiff MDL Censuses – Probably Worse Than Nothing
By Bexis
MDL defendants in prescription medical product liability MDLs have been complaining for years about thousands of cases being brought without the slightest pre-filing vetting – “plaintiffs” who cannot establish that…
Health Law Prof Blog
A Hub-and-Spoke Model of Multidistrict Litigation
Theodore Rave (University of Texas at Austin), Francis E. McGovern (Duke University), A Hub-and-Spoke Model of Multidistrict Litigation, 84 L. and Contemporary Problems 21 (2021):Consolidating mass tort cases in federal…
PrawfsBlawg
conference – Mass Torts Evolve: The Intersection of Aggregate Litigation and Bankruptcy
Main Friday, January 14, 2022conference - Mass Torts Evolve: The Intersection of Aggregate Litigation and BankruptcyRelated to my post below about Dopesick and the opioid litigation, Samir Parikh sends word…
Drug & Device Law
More on Choice Of Law—This Is How It Works
We heard the other day from attorneys involved in the MDL direct filing, choice-of-law case that we wrote about a couple of weeks ago, Looper v. Cook Inc. Engaging in…
Drug & Device Law
D. Maryland Dismisses Pelvic Mesh Design Defect and Failure to Warn Claims
Multidistrict litigations are big piles of wrong. Wrong incentives invite the wrong cases, the wrong rulings, and the wrong results. Plaintiff lawyers park weak cases in MDLs, counting on ultimately…
Drug & Device Law
This Is Why You Should Think Twice About MDL Direct Filing
We have long thought that “direct filing” procedures in multidistrict litigation were a solution in search of a problem. We also think direct filing procedures in MDLs pose significant waiver…