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Multidistrict Litigation
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JOTWELL: Michalski on Burch & Williams on voices of MDL
Main Thursday, November 18, 2021JOTWELL: Michalski on Burch & Williams on voices of MDLThe new Courts Law essay comes from Roger Michalski (Oklahoma) reviewing Elizabeth Chamblee Burch & Margaret Williams,…
Drug & Device Law
More Interesting Post-MDL IVC Rulings
By Bexis
Ever since our Bone Screw days, when we used the strategy to great effect, we’ve rooted for defendants undertaking to beat post-MDL remand plaintiffs in guerrilla litigation in numerous courts…
Drug & Device Law
The Reverse Sham Affidavit Rule? It’s A Thing
A recent order in the Xarelto MDL caught our attention because it is an example of something we see more and more: A plaintiff in multidistrict litigation who neither accepts…
Drug & Device Law
S.D. Texas Strikes New Expert Opinions Disguised as Supplements
“There is naked Nature, inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray.” We are presently on vacation, in the place…
Drug Injury Watch
Tasigna Lawsuits Federal Court MDL Order Issued in August 2021 After July 2021 JPML Hearing
By Tom Lamb
Consolidation of Tasigna Drug Injury Cases Involving Atherosclerosis-related Diseases and Medical Conditions (Posted by Tom Lamb at Drug Injury Watch) On August 12, 2021, the United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict…
Mass Tort Defense
An All Too Common MDL Issue
By Sean Wajert
The MDL court in the 3M Earplug litigation recently rejected defendant's motion to delay a bellwether trial. See In Re: 3M Combat Arms Earplug Products Liab. Lit., Case No. 3:19md2885…
TortsProf Blog
Rave and McGovern on a Hub-and-Spoke Model of Multidistrict Litigation
Theodore Rave has posted his article with the late Francis McGovern, A Hub-and-Spoke Model of Multidistrict Litigation, on SSRN. The abstract provides:Consolidating mass tort cases in federal multidistrict litigation (MDL)…
Mass Tort Defense
Interesting MDL Article Published
By Sean Wajert
Our readers interested in Multi-district Litigation may want to check out recent scholarship from Prof. Brian Fitzpatrick of Vanderbilt Law School. In Many Minds, Many MDL Judges, 84 J. L. &…
Drug & Device Law
MDLs Are Not Vegas – What Happens There Does Not Stay There
Lots of cases get parked in MDLs. There is no denying it. It’s built into the system. Individual cases get brought together in a single court for the purpose of…
Drug & Device Law
Useful Law Review Article on State MDL Practice
By Bexis
There is a lot of scholarship and other material out there on issues having to do with federal multidistrict litigation (“MDL”) practice. See, e.g., footnote three, in the article below. …