Mealey's (April 20, 2021, 2:12 PM EDT) -- BALTIMORE — A federal judge in Maryland on April 16 denied a computer manufacturer’s request to bifurcate class and merits discovery in a complaint by consumers alleging that a certain line of computer devices was knowingly sold with a defective part, writing that courts have been reluctant to grant such bifurcation since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Wal-Mart, Inc. v. Dukes....