'Judges Feel a Lot of Pressure': Jurists Debate Path for Unsettled MDL Cases
"The statistics suggest there may be something really wrong with the MDL process," said U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, who is weighing what to do with 750 remaining Roundup lawsuits after Bayer settled most of the cases.
September 14, 2022 at 05:08 PM
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Mass TortsWhat You Need to Know
- Of the 205,085 cases in MDLs that ended in 1968 through 2021, there were only 15,885 remands, according to the JPML.
- For years, most MDL judges have considered settlements as the end goal, viewing remands of cases as signs of failure.
- Some federal judges, like Joseph Goodwin, who handled transvaginal mesh MDLs in West Virginia, are encouraging judges to remand cases sooner.
Two years after Bayer agreed to pay $10 billion to resolve most of the Roundup lawsuits, lawyers debated what to do with more than 750 unsettled cases remaining in the multidistrict litigation. Plaintiffs lawyers wanted to send them back to the courts where they were filed, and schedule trials across the country.
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