Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach
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Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, 523 U.S. 26 (1998), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously held that a district court conducting coordinated pretrial proceedings in multiple cases by designation of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation under 28 U.S.C. § 1407(a) has no authority to reassign a transferred case to itself for the actual trial of the case. The Court's decision overturned numerous lower-court decisions upholding what had become a common practice in multi-district cases.
Quick Facts Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, Argued November 10, 1997 Decided March 3, 1998 ...
Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach | |
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Argued November 10, 1997 Decided March 3, 1998 | |
Full case name | Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach |
Citations | 523 U.S. 26 (more) 118 S. Ct. 956; 140 L. Ed. 2d 62 |
Case history | |
Prior | Defense verdict upheld by the Ninth Circuit |
Holding | |
A district court conducting coordinated pretrial proceedings in multi-district litigation may not reassign a transferred case to itself for trial | |
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Case opinion | |
Majority | Souter, joined by unanimous (except Scalia did not join Part II—C) |
Laws applied | |
28 U.S.C. § 1407(a) |
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