IN RE SULZER HIP PROSTHESIS AND KNEE PROSTHESIS LIABILITY LITIGATION

No. 1:01-CV-9000.

455 F.Supp.2d 709 (2006)

In re: SULZER HIP PROSTHESIS AND KNEE PROSTHESIS LIABILITY LITIGATION This Document Relates to: Howard v. Sulzer Orthopedics, Inc., 1:03CV9006 Burgess v. Sulzer Orthopedics, Inc., 1:04CV9005

United States District Court, N.D. Ohio, Eastern Division.

October 3, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew M. Greenwell, James R. Harris, Harris & Greenwell, Corpus Christi, TX, Charles R. Parker, Hill & Parker, Houston, TX, Daniel E. Becnel, Jr., Reserve, LA, James R. Dugan, II, Stephen B. Murray, Jr., Murray Law Firm, New Orleans, LA, Don Barrett, Barrett Law Office, Lexington, MS, John L. Davidson, Davidson, Bowie, Sims, Flowood, MS, Michael E. Cox, Biloxi, MS, John R. Climaco, Climaco Lefkowitz Peca Wilcox & Garofoli, R. Eric Kennedy, Weisman, Kennedy & Berris, Timothy A. Spirko, Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, Debra J. Horn, Meyers, Roman, Friedberg & Lewis, Mary B. McKee, Hickman & Lowder, Peter J. Brodhead, Spangenberg, Shibley & Liber, Phillip A. Ciano, Ciano & Goldwasser, Timothy J. Gallagher, Schwarzwald & McNair, Cleveland, OH, Richard S. Wayne, Strauss & Troy, Stanley M. Chesley, Waite, Schneider, Bayless & Chesley, Janet G. Abaray, Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh Jardine, Cincinnati, OH, Paul L. Jackson, Roetzel & Andress, Akron, OH, John T. Murray, Murray & Murray, Sandusky, OH, David W. Zoll, Zoll & Kranz, Toledo, OH, Sylvia Antalis Goldsmith, Law Office Sylvia A. Goldsmith, Avon, OH, Steven E. Clark, Clark & Mitchell, Oklahoma City, OK, Keith Johnson, Ft. Mitchell, KY, Keith M. Fleischman, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP, Lee Squitieri, Squitieri & Fearon, New York City, Steven M. Tindall, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, San Francisco, CA, Timothy E. Eagle, Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett, Grand Rapids, MI, Laura Citrano, Neil Papiano, Iverson Yoakum Papiano & Hatch, Los Angeles, CA, Frank Hilton-Green Tomlinson, Pritchard, Mccall & Jones, K. Dee Hutsler, III, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiffs.

J. Patrick Herald, Richard M. Franklin, James J. Dries, Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, IL, David W. Brooks, Bradley D. Honnold, Harvey L. Kaplan, Matthew D. Keenan, Lori C. McGroder, Shook, Hardy & Bacon, Kansas City, MO, Jeffrey M. Whitesell, Irene C. Keyse-Walker, Robert C. Tucker, Tucker, Ellis & West, Mary M. Bittence, Baker & Hostetler, Cleveland, OH, Richard F. Scruggs, Scruggs Law Finn, Pascagoula, MS, Sidney. A. Backstrom, Scruggs Law Firm, Oxford, MS, Steven J. Boranian, Reed Smith Crosby Heafey LLP, San Francisco, CA, Werner L. Polak, Shearman & Sterling, New York City, for Defendants.


MEMORANDUM & ORDER

O'MALLEY, District Judge.

This opinion discusses three cases that have been transferred to this Court as related to Multi-District Litigation ("MDL") No. 1401, known as In re: Sulzer Orthopedics Inc. Hip Prosthesis and Knee Prosthesis Products Liability Litigation.1 The three cases are: (1) Moore v. Sulzer Orthopedics, Inc., case no. 02-CV-9116; (2) Howard v. Sulzer Orthopedics,...

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