The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation ordered today that its seven members will gather for the next argument session on November 19 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their Honors will hear from lawyers in, by Blawgletter's count, 16 potential MDL matters.
By the way, we confess to error in guessing the Panel would head south for this gathering. You can't get a whole lot farther north in the lower 48 than the Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School.
Further by the way, the numbers have come in for the last set of MDL cases. By circuit and district court:
First Circuit
None
Second Circuit
Southern District of New York (2)
Western District of New YorkThird Circuit
District of New Jersey
Fourth Circuit
District of Maryland
Fifth Circuit
Northern District of Texas (2)
Sixth Circuit
None
Seventh Circuit
Southern District of Illinois
Eighth Circuit
District of Minnesota
Western District of MissouriNinth Circuit
District of Arizona
Central District of California
Southern District of CaliforniaTenth Circuit
None
Eleventh Circuit
Northern District of Alabama
Northern District of Georgia (2)D.C. Circuit
None