Legal Opinion
Hayes v. Actavis, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided August 27, 2013No. Case Nos. 12 C 6296, 13 C 3366; MDL No. 2372PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
MATTHEW F. KENNELLY, District Judge:
This Court is presiding over coordinated pretrial proceedings in related product liability cases against Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (now known as Actavis, Inc.) and various related entities, pursuant to an order by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation entered under 28 U.S.C. § 1407. This decision concerns one of those cases, Hayes v. Actavis, Inc.
Background
The overwhelming majority of the cases that compose the MDL proceeding were filed by a single law firm, Heygood, Orr & Pearson of Dallas, Texas. All of the cases…
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