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New Jersey Law Journal

Pfizer Argues Against Remand in Case of 'Fraudulent Joinder'

Drug maker Pfizer is opposing a plaintiff's request to have her case remanded back to state court in the Effexor products liability litigation, arguing that California plaintiffs have been joining drug distributor McKesson in order to destroy diversity jurisdiction and prevent manufacturers from keeping cases in federal court.
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New Jersey Law Journal

MDL Panel Rejects Motions To Vacate Vaginal Mesh Cases

The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has rejected several separate motions of plaintiffs against removal to vaginal mesh MDLs.
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New Jersey Law Journal

MDL Formed Over Pella Window Class Actions

A federal multidistrict litigation involving six putative class actions over Pella Corporation windows has been approved by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. The MDL will proceed in the District of South Carolina.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Clogged Machine Led to Finger Amputations

By | February 18, 2014
On Oct. 8, 2008, plaintiff Harley Gery, 21, was working as a laborer for a bulk-powders manufacturer in East Greenville, Pa.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Smith v. Ford Motor Co., PICS Case No. 14-0115 (C.P. Philadelphia, Jan. 24, 2014) New, J. (12 pages).

By | February 18, 2014
Summary Judgment • Asbestos • "Apparent Manufacturer"
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New Jersey Law Journal

Plaintiffs' Lawyers Seek Lien Administrator in Vaginal Mesh Litigation

Plaintiff lawyers in all six multidistrict litigations brought by women who allege they were injured from vaginal mesh have asked the judge to appoint the same firm to handle liens asserted by governmental and private health insurers.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Plaintiffs Steering Committee Wants Notification of Lawsuits Regarding Common Benefit Fees

Common benefit fees are assessed to pay for the discovery and other pre-trial work undertaken by a multidistrict litigation's plaintiffs' steering committee for the benefit of every claimant and their counsel with cases pending. But not everyone willingly pays those fees.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Truvia Sweetener MDL Rejected

A proposal to create a multidistrict litigation over marketing and sales practices related to Truvia sweetener has been rejected by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Claim Over Off-Label Marketing Not Pre-empted in Medtronic Case

Two brothers' claims that Medtronic negligently engaged in off-label marketing of medical devices have survived federal preemption at the motion-to-dismiss stage in federal court in Arizona.
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New Jersey Law Journal

Philadelphia Judge Throws Out Plaintiffs' Experts in Dental-Cream Litigation

Defendants Procter & Gamble and Rite-Aid have won their global motion to exclude the general-causation experts of the last 12 state-court plaintiffs who allege that their exposure to zinc from denture adhesive creams caused them to develop an irreversible neurologic condition.
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