Five years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic had the world twirling off its bearings, but “Zoom” became a verb and that helped some. Video conferencing not only became a way to stay connected to friends and family, it became a lifeline that allowed lawyers to continue to take depositions, appear for oral arguments, and even conduct
A few months ago, we reported on what we believed—and still believe—was an abusive application of offensive non-mutual collateral estoppel, Freeman v. Ethicon, Inc., 2022 WL 3147194 (C.D. Cal. 2022), which precluded those defendants in one of their numerous pelvic mesh cases from disputing at a jury trial certain factual findings entered by a