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Coleman v. Danek Medical, Inc.

District Court, S.D. Mississippi

Decided April 30, 1998No. CIV.A. 3:96CV776LNPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

TOM S. LEE, Chief Judge.

This case is one of more than two thousand separate products liability actions filed in this country by more than five thousand plaintiffs claiming that defective “pedicle screw fixation devices” which have been surgically attached to the pedicles of their spines have caused them to suffer physical injuries. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation transferred these cases to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for consolidated pretrial proceedings, following which two…

2Cases cited7 opinions

Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, Administratrix of the Estate of CatrettSupreme Court of the United States · 1986
Chudasama v. Mazda Motor Corp.Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1997
Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 99,510 in Re Sofamor Danek Group, Inc. Bruce G. Murphy, Randy Owen, Mary Kennedy, and Lynda Kramer, Mike Roberts v. Sofamor Danek Group, Inc., E. Ron Pickard, Laurence Y. Fairey, Leander D. Beard, George F. Rapp, Miles D. Igo, Alan J. Olsen, Yves Paul Cotrel, and Phillipe CotrelCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1997
Franklin v. Lovitt Equipment Co., Inc.Mississippi Supreme Court · 1982
United States v. Algon Chemical Inc., a Corporation, and Edward Latinsky, an IndividualCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1989

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Baker v. Danek MedicalDistrict Court, N.D. Florida · 1998