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…)