This just in: The Eighth Circuit has affirmed the Baycol MDL judge’s authority to enjoin the plaintiffs, after losing a class certification motion in the MDL, from running to a (presumably) friendly state-court judge to get the same class certified. Here’s a link to the opinion.

What happened is that one West Virginia law based consumer fraud (that is, economic losses only) class action was removed to federal court and became part of the (more…)

Last Friday, the Pennsylvania Superior Court (an intermediate appellate court in Pennsylvania) issued a long awaited (some three years long) decision in the Baycol case, Pauley v. Bayer. We’ve been interested in Pauley because the trial court opinion being appealed was probably the best Pennsylvania/state court generally authority on inadmissibility of anecdotal adverse event reports. SeePauley v. Bayer Corp. (more…)