Skip to content

Menu

HomeAboutServices
Sean P. Wajert of Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP logo
Contact
Subscribe
Search
Close
Published by Sean P. Wajert

Mass Tort Defense

Defense of Mass Tort Claims, Class Actions, and Significant Product-Based Litigation

MDL

Subscribe to MDL

Preemption Found in Another Drug MDL

By Sean Wajert on November 28, 2015
Posted in Articles, Drug and Device

Implied preemption makes complete sense when it is evident that the FDA would not have permitted label changes that plaintiffs in private litigation s…
Continue Reading Preemption Found in Another Drug MDL

Abandonment Issues in an MDL

By Sean Wajert on October 21, 2015
Posted in Articles, Drug and Device

The defendant in a medical device MDL recently flagged an important and thorny issue that impacts many if not most MDL’s. And it has to do with bellwe…
Continue Reading Abandonment Issues in an MDL

MDL Defendant Moves for Coordination with State Court Proceedings

By Sean Wajert on March 25, 2015
Posted in Articles, Class Action, Consumer Products

General Motors recently moved in Pennsylvania state court to to have discovery in an ignition defect lawsuit coordinated with the discovery in the 150…
Continue Reading MDL Defendant Moves for Coordination with State Court Proceedings

Publication of my new Class Action & Mass Torts Answer Book

By Sean Wajert on March 3, 2015
Posted in Articles, Class Action

Just a quick note. Your humble blogger is very pleased to announce the availability of my latest publication, the Class Action and Mass Tort Answer Bo…
Continue Reading Publication of my new Class Action & Mass Torts Answer Book

MDL Court Rejects Plaintiffs’ New Causation Experts

By Sean Wajert on February 9, 2015
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Consumer Products, Toxic Tort

The MDL judge in the Denture Cream Products coordinated litigation has rejected all of plaintiffs’ general causation experts. See In re Denture Cream …
Continue Reading MDL Court Rejects Plaintiffs’ New Causation Experts

Third Circuit Affirms Asbestos Dismissals

By Sean Wajert on June 1, 2013
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

Readers know that too often the necessary administrative procedures set in place in a mass tort are enforced on a one-way basis, costing defendants mo…
Continue Reading Third Circuit Affirms Asbestos Dismissals

JPML Releases MDL Stats

By Sean Wajert on May 27, 2013
Posted in Articles, Class Action

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation recently released the data on requests for coordination and dispositions in 2012, and some intere…
Continue Reading JPML Releases MDL Stats

Duke Organizing Special MDL Conference

By Sean Wajert on March 15, 2013
Posted in Articles, Class Action

Here is a conference opportunity worth thinking about for our readers who work on MDLs. The Director of the Duke Law Center for Judicial Studies notes…
Continue Reading Duke Organizing Special MDL Conference

Panel Rejects MDL Status for Brass Plumbing Claims

By Sean Wajert on October 4, 2012
Posted in Articles, Consumer Products

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…
Continue Reading Panel Rejects MDL Status for Brass Plumbing Claims

Challenge to Federal-State Court Coordination Overture Prompts Response

By Sean Wajert on September 18, 2012
Posted in Articles, Drug and Device

One of the challenges of our system of federalism, and dual jurisdiction between state and federal courts, is the coordination of related cases pendin…
Continue Reading Challenge to Federal-State Court Coordination Overture Prompts Response

Post navigation

Older Posts 
Published by
Sean P. Wajert
Phone: 215.278.2430
Fax: 215.278.2594
Email: swajert@shb.com
Add this blog to your RSS feeds Connect with me on LinkedIn Follow me on Twitter
Privacy PolicyDisclaimer

About My Practice

Mass Tort Defense Lawyer & Attorney Sean P. Wajert of Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP, offering services relating to mass torts, product liability, class actions, medical monitoring, pharmaceutical litigation, consumer fraud act defense, complex litigation.

Read More...

Categories

Archives

Copyright © 2022, Sean P. Wajert of Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP. All Rights Reserved.
Law blog design & platform by LexBlog LexBlog Logo