IN RE DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS, INC.

No. 17-10812.

870 F.3d 345 (2017)

IN RE: DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS, INCORPORATED; Depuy Products, Incorporated; Depuy Synthes, Incorporated; Johnson & Johnson International; Johnson & Johnson Services, Incorporated; Johnson & Johnson, Petitioners.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed August 31, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John H. Beisner , Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Michael Vance Powell , Locke Lord, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Petitioners.

Richard J. Arsenault, Esq. , Neblett, Beard & Arsenault, Alexandria, LA, W. Mark Lanier, Esq. , Miriam Michelle Carreras , Kevin Philip Parker , Lanier Law Firm, P.C., Houston, TX, Jayne Conroy , Hanly, Conroy, Bierstein & Sheridan, L.L.P., New York, NY, Wayne Fisher , Justin Joseph Presnal, Esq. , Fisher, Boyd, Johnson & Huguenard, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Kenneth Winston Starr , Waco, TX, for Respondents.

Before JONES, SMITH, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.


This petition for writ of mandamus arises from a multidistrict litigation ("MDL") proceeding involving more than 9,300 plaintiffs.1 Those plaintiffs have brought product-liability claims against petitioners for designing, manufacturing, and distributing an allegedly defective hip-implant...

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