The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation recently released the data on requests for coordination and dispositions in 2012, and some intere
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JPML Declines MDL Status for Surgical Robots
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We have posted before about the MDL process and the importance of the initial decision by the Panel on ordering coordination. Last week the Judicial P…
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Panel Creates Vitaminwater MDL
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The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation last week ordered the coordination of the litigation against Coca-Cola Co. alleging it misled the …
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JPML Hears Oral Argument In Gulf Oil Spill MDL
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The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation heard oral argument last week on the issue of consolidating the hundreds of cases arising from the…
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Court Rebuffs Forum Shopping – But Shoppers Get Bargain Anyway?
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A federal court recently ordered the transfer of an action involving an allegedly defective pain pump from Minnesota to plaintiffs’ home state of Nort…
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JPML Denies MDL Status to Pain Pump Litigation- Again
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For the second time, the JPML has declined to consolidate the federal product liability cases involving pain pumps. In re Ambulatory Pain Pump-Chondro…
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MDL Status Denied in Pharma Case
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The JPML has denied centralization of the litigation accusing a drug maker of fraudulently promoting and allegedly misrepresenting the safety of 11 pr…
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iPhone MDL Created
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The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has issued an order consolidating 12 putative class actions alleging that Apple Inc.’s iPhon…
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