Legal Opinion
Menges v. Depuy Motech, Inc.
District Court, N.D. Indiana
Decided June 11, 1999No. 3:96 CV 0026 ASPublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
ALLEN SHARP, District 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 were surgically attached to the pedicles of their spines during spine fusion- surgery have caused them to suffer physical injuries. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407, the Judicial Panel on Multi district Litigation (MDL) transferred these cases to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania for consolidated pretrial…
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