In response to a venue challenge, a Philadelphia judge has ruled the city’s courts have jurisdiction over the defendants in the pelvic-mesh mass tort.
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Arnold L. New, coordinating judge of the court’s Complex Litigation Center, rejected the jurisdictional challenge of defendants Boston Scientific and Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon. The defendants had sought to remove the cases to federal court in West Virginia.
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