Bair Hugger MDL Judge Won’t Let Bellwether Plaintiffs Withdraw Lexecon Waivers

(July 30, 2018, 12:41 PM EDT) -- MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota federal judge presiding over the Bair Hugger multidistrict litigation on July 25 ruled that seven bellwether trial plaintiffs cannot retract their MDL trial court waivers under Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, 523 U.S. 26 (1998), after the first bellwether trial resulted in a defense verdict (In Re:  Bair Hugger Forced Air Warming Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 2666, No. 15-2666, D. Minn.)....

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