There’s an interesting new decision from the appellate division of the NJ Superior Court, Hoffman v. Hampshire Labs. It’s not a prescription drug case – rather it’s about one of those products typically advertised in those emails that then (we hope) go off to die unread in our spam filters. Hoffman was brought under
By now, you know the drill:
Plaintiffs file complaints in federal courts in, say, Alabama, Illinois, and Florida. Ordinarily, the choice-of-law rules of the courts in which the cases were filed — Alabama, Illinois, and Florida, respectively — would govern those cases.
But what happens if the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transfers all of