As we have riffed on before, staying apolitical when discussing the science and law implicated by our posts can be harder than one might expect. That has become increasingly true with regard to litigation over alleged injuries from vaccines, to say nothing of vaccine mandates for public health. It was not terribly
Issue Preclusion
Unusual Indictment of MDL Practices
By Eric Alexander on
We have not been terribly shy in voicing our concerns over certain practices we see in drug and device MDLs. Some of these concerns are directed to plaintiff lawyers, some to the judges overseeing the MDLs, and some to both. For instance, we think many MDL judges are far too lenient in allowing plaintiffs…