Bexis went gallivanting off to California last week to (among other things) speak to the Product Liability Advisory Council, Inc. (“PLAC”) about the joys of pleading in the post-Twombly/Iqbal era. That meant that he had to update the Twombly/Iqbal research that previously appeared here. Being the lazy pedants that
A tip of the cyberhat to Ed Gerecke, Penelope Dixon, and Dave Walz and of Carlton Fields for passing along news of another preemption win, in Wolicki-Gables v. Arrow International, Inc., ___ F. Supp. 2d ___, 2009 WL 2190069, slip op. (M.D. Fla. July 22, 2009). That’s a quick decision to publish by
Last year, the MDL Panel denied an attempt to centralize all of the federal “shoulder pain pump – chondrolysis” cases. See In re Shoulder Pain Pump – Chondrolysis Products Liability Litigation, MDL No. 1966 (JPML Aug. 11, 2008) (link here). So the cases have moved ahead individually in federal courts across America.
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The following guest post was written by Pearson Bownas of Jones Day. As is always true of guest posts, Pearson gets the credit; we get the blame:
Whether the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (the “MDL Panel” or “Panel”) grants or denies a motion to centralize cases pending in different federal district courts and