5th Circ. Wants Texas Hip Implant Bellwether Axed

By Jess Krochtengel (September 1, 2017, 8:44 PM EDT) -- A Fifth Circuit panel has said a Texas federal judge wrongly held that Johnson & Johnson waived its objections to venue for bellwether trials in multidistrict litigation over allegedly defective hip implants and requested the court cancel a trial set to begin Sept. 5, but stopped short of ordering the judge to do so....

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