multidistrict-litigation

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-13 E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. v. Travis Abbott, et ux. Sixth Circuit 2023-07-05 Denied Amici (5)Relisted (7) bellwether-trials civil-procedure collateral-estoppel due-process judicial-procedure multidistrict-litigation representative-sample representativeness Whether nonmutual offensive collateral estoppel can be applied to make the results of a handful of unrepresentative bellwether trials binding on the d…
22-651 Kenneth Kellogg, et al. v. Watts Guerra LLP, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-13 Denied Response Waived attorney-deceit class-action due-process fee-contract judicial-recusal mass-tort multidistrict-litigation Can lawyers privately contract clients and absent class members out of a Fed. R. Civ. P. 23 class action?
19-984 Mazie Slater Katz & Freeman, LLC v. Common Benefit Fee and Cost Committee Fourth Circuit 2020-02-06 Denied common-benefit-fund conflict-of-interest court-appointed-committee due-process fee-allocation multidistrict-litigation self-dealing Whether federal courts must implement a process that comports with due process to determine the fee and expense allocation of common-benefit funds in …
19-982 Erica Y. Bryant, et al. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-02-05 Denied civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-transfer multi-district-litigation multidistrict-litigation preemption procedural-error state-law statute-of-repose Whether a transferee court in an MDL proceeding must follow the decisions of the transferor court's state supreme court and federal circuit court of a…
18-768 In Re Kenneth P. Kellogg, et al. 2018-12-18 Denied Response Waived attorney-misconduct civil-procedure class-action common-questions-of-fact contingent-fee-contracts fee-contract judicial-discretion judicial-usurpation mdl-transfer minnesota-law multidistrict-litigation pretrial-proceedings Whether the MDL Panel transfer of Kellogg
18-501 Alim Adburahman, et al. v. Hyundai Motor America, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response Waived amendment appellate-procedure case-dismissal civil-procedure district-court-jurisdiction docket-management final-order frcp-15 judicial-authority jurisdiction multidistrict-litigation procedural-conflict Does a U.S. District Court have the power to dismiss cases previously transferred to a Multidistrict litigation, interfering with the adjudication of …
18-95 Kyrt M. Wentzell, et al. v. BP America, Incorporated, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-procedure-appeal deepwater-horizon dismissal due-process fifth-circuit judicial-discretion mdl-procedure multidistrict-litigation oil-spill procedural-compliance standing timeliness Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the petitioners' appeal to the Fifth Circuit was not timely filed