3M Earplug Lawsuit Update

On March 28, 2019, a hearing was held before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) regarding the 3M Combat Arms Earplug lawsuits.  The hearing took place in Washington, DC.   The JPML is a panel comprised of federal judges, who decide where the cases will be consolidated for all pretrial litigation.  When you have large numbers of lawsuits filed in federal courts throughout the U.S., involving the same product or company, the JPML is allowed to consolidate those cases before one judge in one court for all of the pretrial litigation.  The theory behind the Multidistrict Litigation Court is that you will have one judge ruling on pretrial matters and evidentiary issues in the case, rather than having multiple judges issuing different rulings on the same issues in different federal courts throughout the United States.  Lawyers representing soldiers and 3M argued for the cases to be consolidated and transferred to federal courts in…

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