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Judiciary Panel Clears 1st MDL Rule, Eyes 'Mouthpiece' Amici

By Jeff Overley ( June 4, 2024, 11:55 PM EDT) -- Top rulemaking gatekeepers for the federal judiciary Tuesday capped off seven years of strife in the defense and plaintiffs bars by backing a milestone measure aimed at optimizing multidistrict litigation, and then promptly greenlighted an entirely different war of words over new efforts to ferret out amicus briefs from "paid mouthpieces" masquerading as independent experts. . . .

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