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Product Liability Seminar Offers Topical Mass Tort Session

By Sean Wajert on March 10, 2010
Posted in Articles

We have posted before about the 2010 DRI Product Liability Conference in Las Vegas in April, as an event worth checking out. Let me add that one of th…
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CAFA Mass Tort Removal in Drug Case

By Sean Wajert on December 29, 2009
Posted in Articles, Drug and Device

A federal court in Illinois recently denied remand of approximately 100 cases involving Trasylol, an anti-bleeding drug, citing the Class Action Fairn…
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Climate Change Litigation and Legislation Update

By Sean Wajert on August 18, 2009
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

Although we haven’t posted about it much, a number of environmental groups, states and private citizens have brought litigation, seeking to turn clima…
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Guide for Multidistrict Litigation Transferee Judges Published By FJC

By Sean Wajert on August 11, 2009
Posted in Articles

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation and The Federal Judicial Center have recently released a new publication, “Ten Steps to Better Cas…
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Court Allows Plaintiffs to Structure Suits To Avoid CAFA

By Sean Wajert on April 2, 2009
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

Two thousand Central American banana farm workers suing over their alleged exposure to a pesticide were permitted split up their suits to avoid federa…
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Latest Federal Court Statistical Report Offers Snapshot of Mass Torts

By Sean Wajert on March 27, 2009
Posted in Articles, Class Action

An interesting snapshot of mass torts and product liability actions in the federal courts is found in the annual report, “Judicial Business of th…
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Update on Digitek Litigation

By Sean Wajert on February 3, 2009
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Drug and Device, Medical Monitoring

As posted by MassTortDefense, the Digitek MDL judge late in 2008 issued a pretrial order regarding multi-plaintiff complaints. In Pretrial Order No. 7…
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National Juries For National Cases?

By Sean Wajert on September 23, 2008
Posted in Articles, Class Action

At MassTortDefense we typically focus on cases, statutes, and the like, but certainly can make room for a thought-provoking academic piece. Professor …
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Issue Preclusion in Mass Torts

By Sean Wajert on September 16, 2008
Posted in Articles, Class Action

Professor Byron Stier, of Southwestern Law School, has written an interesting article entitled, Another Jackpot (In)Justice: Verdict Variability and I…
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Mass Tort Litigation Screenings Exposed

By Sean Wajert on September 1, 2008
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Drug and Device, Toxic Tort

Professor Lester Brickman, of Cardozo School of Law, has published a fascinating article entitled, “The Use of Litigation Screenings in Mass Tort…
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