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Minnesota attorney Tony Nemo explains how multidistrict litigation works and how it differs from class action lawsuits.
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TRANSCRIPT
When there are many different cases - thousands of cases involving the same defendant, the same medical product, the same allegations of wrong-doing, and the same type of injuries - what happens in many cases, is that there's a consolidation of all of those cases before a single federal judge in the country, and the judge handles the pre-trial discovery phase of the case - where the defendant produces documents to us, produces witnesses for deposition, things like that. That is not a class action.
Throughout that process which is called multi-district litigation, throughout that multi-district litigation process, even though the cases are consolidated before a single judge, every case remains individual; a separate stand-alone case, because everybody suffered things differently, everybody comes from a different background, they have different issues, different losses.
And that's one thing I think people need to know is, in a case involving a drug or a medical device, when there are thousands of cases out there, and you hire us, your case is never going to be in a class action. It is a separate case, a unique case, and it will never be combined with another one. But there will be a consolidation of cases to save money and time for everybody in this multi-district litigation process.
