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Yaz Court in NJ Issues Bellwether Trial CMO
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The court overseeing the coordinated litigation in New Jersey state court over the birth control pills Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella recently issued a case …
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Interesting Case Management Issue in Welding MDL
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We have posted about the welding fumes MDL before. Call it case management by option– as the court has worked through the bellwether trials, it is in…
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Dismissal of FEMA Trailer MDL Bellwether Plaintiff Affirmed
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With the recognition by many courts of the inappropriateness of the use of the class action device for personal injury claims, the use of other method…
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MDL Court Rejects Consolidation of Bellwether Trials
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Readers of MassTortDefense know how significant the earliest few trials in any mass tort can be, influencing later trials and shaping settlement strat…
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Update on FEMA Trailer MDL
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A federal judge has decided an that an advisory jury can hear evidence on claims against the U.S. government in bellwether trials in the MDL concernin…
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Ruling on Contractors’ Motion to Dismiss in FEMA Trailer MDL
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The federal judge presiding over the MDL involving litigation claiming trailers issued after Hurricane Katrina allegedly exposed residents to formalde…
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FEMA Trailer MDL Selects First Bellwether Trial
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Judge Engelhardt of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, overseeing the MDL relating to the alleged formaldehyde contaminati…
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MDL Court Holds To Pretrial Deadlines For Next Bellwether Case In Welding Fumes
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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 …
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Bellwether Trials Proposed in Aredia MDL
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The MDL The parties in the MDL concerning the bone cancer drugs, Aredia and Zometa, have proposed 10 bellwether cases for the first round of trials. T…
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