IN RE ZYPREXA PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION

Nos. 07-3815-cv, 07-5539-op

IN RE: ZYPREXA PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION. MULLIGAN LAW FIRM, Appellant, v. ZYPREXA MDL PLAINTIFFS' STEERING COMMITTEE II and ELI LILLY AND COMPANY, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Final Submission: June 17, 2009.

Decided: February 3, 2010.

Corrected: February 8, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ROBERT J. LACK, Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP, New York, NY (Eric Roberson, The Mulligan Law Firm, Dallas, TX, and William David George and Earnest W. Wotring, Connelly, Baker, Wotring LLP, Houston, TX, on the brief) for Appellant.

WILLIAM M. AUDET, Audet & Partners, LLP, San Francisco, CA (James M. Shaughnessy, Milberg LLP, New York, NY, on the brief) for Appellee Zyprexa MDL Plaintiffs' Steering Committee II.

ANTHONY VALE, Pepper Hamilton LLP, Philadelphia, PA (Nina M. Gussack, Philadelphia, PA, and Samuel J. Abate, Jr., New York, NY, on the brief) for Appellee Eli Lilly and Company.

Before: McLAUGHLIN and SACK, Circuit Judges, and KAPLAN, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

This interlocutory appeal concerns the attorney compensation structure established by the district court in this ongoing multidistrict litigation ("MDL"), and the applicability of that compensation structure to the Mulligan Law Firm ("Mulligan"). Mulligan represents more than two thousand plaintiffs in upwards of seventy cases that have been transferred by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to the United States District Court for the Eastern...

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