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Editor: Robert Blanchard
Profession: Attorney at Law

Category: Ortho Evra Legal News

Judge David Katz, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio conducted his first hearing with all interested counsel present in the Ortho Evra MDL proceedings. Needless to say, the Judge was kind to both sides and his comments from the bench were well considered. He was decisive regarding pending questions of leadership among the attorneys and distinguished himself by making an unfortunately rare appointment of a minority attorney to the Plaintiff's Executive Committee, consisting of only four other lawyers. One potentially contentious ruling regarded the deferment of setting lines for expert depositions, in hopes that time and resources would be better spent in an early evaluation of all the claimants' medical records. An Order from the Court is expected soon.