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Fight Breaks Out over Midcourse MDL Review

By Barry Barnett on July 11, 2014

Shutterstock_183258623A Question of Efficiency

Will quick review of a final judgment in just one of many cases that make up a large multi-district litigation bog the MDL process down  — or make it work better?

Defense lawyers insist that consolidation of cases before a single district judge (by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation) changes…

Posted in Antitrust, Class Actions, Commercial, Corporate, and Contracts

Court Can’t Order Foreign Workers to Come to U.S. to Testify, Seventh Circuit Rules

By Barry Barnett on January 25, 2014

A panel of the Seventh Circuit split 2-1 on whether to halt a district judge's order that called for a big drug-maker in Germany to ship a baker's dozen of its workers to New York for depositions. In re Petition of Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., No. 13-3898 (7th Cir. Jan. 24, 2014). The court…

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Behrend v. Comcast Talk with New York State Bar’s Antitrust Section, Class Action Committee

By Barry Barnett on September 28, 2011

Blawgletter's friend Sam Simon asked us to visit this morning with the Class Action Committee of the New York State Bar's Antitrust Section, and the chair — whom we also count as a friend — Hollis Salzman gave her okay.

You can see below the remarks we wrote out (plus a Q&A at the end to reflect…

Posted in Antitrust, Class Actions

Webinar on Class Certification in Antitrust Cases: A Brave New World

By Barry Barnett on January 29, 2011

A couple weeks ago, if you found yourself in downtown Philadelphia, you could've stopped in the U.S. courthouse there and seen Blawgletter argue a Rule 23(f) appeal to an impressive panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.  The appeal challenges an order certifying a class of Philadelphia-area cable subscribers.  Behrend v. Comcast Corp., No.

Posted in Antitrust, Class Actions

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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