In Re Silica Products Liability Litigation

ORDER NO. 29: ADDRESSING SUBJECT-MATTER JURISDICTION, EXPERT TESTIMONY AND SANCTIONS

JACK, District Judge.

Twenty months of pre-trial proceedings and coordinated discovery in the above-styled multidistrict litigation (“MDL”) have culminated in three issues becoming ripe for decision: (1) whether federal subject-matter jurisdiction exists in this MDL’s 111 cases (totaling over 10,000 individual Plaintiffs); (2) whether the doctors who diagnosed Plaintiffs with silicosis employed a sufficiently reliable methodology for their testimony to be admissible; and, (3) whether Plaintiffs’ counsel should…