Judge Robert Miller Jr., of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana, issued an order on April 18 in a feisty multi-district dispute over hip implant products, authorizing predictive coding by the defendant despite the fact that the defendant proceeded with e-discovery before the cases were centralized and ignoring plaintiff directives to not begin document production. The case is In Re: Biomet M2a Magnum Hip Implant Products Liability Litigation (MDL 2391).
Miller’s order notes that Biomet has produced 2.5 million document to plaintiffs, and the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee believes production results should be close to 10 million documents. The cases were centralized in the summer of 2012. From the opinion:
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