All the litigation was consolidated, and a trial is scheduled for January.
But the remaining companies refused to settle and will contest the suits in a jury trial scheduled for September in United States District Court in Manhattan, where the national litigation was consolidated.
Most of the American civil litigation has been consolidated in her court and the sheer scope of the opinion is an implicit acknowledgment that the conclusions will be carefully reviewed.
The current case against Union Bank is consolidated with litigation against some 35 banks, including JP Morgan Chase, U.S. Bank, and BB&T Corp, all before the same judge in Florida, according to the Associated Press.
"The Plaintiffs have a pressing need for Mr. Rowland's testimony to confirm his relationship with Monsanto and EPA's substantial role in protecting the Defendant's business... .. plaintiff's attorneys wrote in the Feb. 10 filing in the multi-district litigation, which has been consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
Aetna and its Prudential Health Care unit have asked a committee of federal judges, the Multidistrict Litigation Panel, to consolidate at least eight cases against Aetna and Prudential and transfer them to Philadelphia.
Trial lawyers are held in low esteem by the public, and more to the point, the judicial and political systems have increasingly pushed to rationalize the mass-torts circus, by consolidating litigation and, in the case of the BP spill, urging the creation of a company-financed compensation fund for victims.
Plaintiffs' attorneys have requested that the lawsuits be consolidated into Multidistrict Litigation ("MDL").
More than 100 of those lawsuits have been consolidated in multidistrict litigation in federal court in San Francisco, while other similar lawsuits are pending in state courts in Missouri, Delaware, Arizona and elsewhere.
A family lawsuit over the suicide of the star linebacker Junior Seau was consolidated with N.F.L. concussion litigation.
