Legal Opinion
Christopher v. Depuy Orthopaedics, Inc. (In Re Depuy Orthopaedics, Inc., Pinnacle Hip Implant Prod. Liab. Litig.)
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 25, 2018No. 16-11051; 16-11052; 16-11053; 16-11054; 16-11056; 17-10030; 17-10031; 17-10032; 17-10034; 17-10035PublishedCited by 157 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
*763 These appeals and cross-appeal are from the second in a series of bellwether trials from the Pinnacle Hip multidistrict litigation ("MDL"), in which several thousand plaintiffs claim injuries from Pinnacle hips manufactured and sold by DePuy Orthopaedics, Incorporated ("DePuy"). The five plaintiffs in this consolidated action-Margaret Aoki, Jay Christopher, Donald Greer, Richard Klusmann, and Robert Peterson 2 -received Pinnacle's metal-on-metal ("MoM") design, suffered complications, and required revision surgery. They sued DePuy and its parent corporation,…
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