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IN RE: 3M COMBAT ARMS EARPLUG PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION
Case Number:
3:19-md-02885
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Multi Party Litigation:
Multi-district Litigation
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Firms
- Allen Matkins
- Aylstock Witkin
- Blackwell Burke PA
- Bowman & Brooke
- Boyd & Jenerette
- Bradley Arant
- Butler Snow LLP
- Clark Love & Hutson
- Dechert LLP
- Dentons
- Goldman Ismail
- Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani
- Hawkins Parnell
- Heninger Garrison
- Hogan Lovells
- Holland & Knight
- Husch Blackwell
- Hutcheson Bowers
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Levin Papantonio
- Manning Gross
- Moore Hill & Westmoreland
- Nelson Mullins
- Norton Rose
- Ongaro PC
- Paul Weiss
- Pierson Ferdinand LLP
- Seeger Weiss
- Segal McCambridge
- Seward & Kissel
- Shook Hardy
- Spencer Fane
- Squire Patton
- Thomas Combs
- Thompson Coe
- Vorys
- White & Case
- Williams & Connolly
- Wilson Sonsini
- Yetter Coleman
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December 09, 2020
Service Members Want Single Bellwether In 3M Earplug MDL
Five military members and veterans who blame their hearing damage on allegedly defective 3M earplugs urged a Florida federal judge on Monday to group their bellwether cases for a single trial, saying their cases "involve overlapping, and frequently coextensive, issues and facts."
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October 02, 2020
Judge In MDL Won't Send 3M Earplug Claims To Minn.
A Florida federal judge denied for a second time a bid from military veterans to send their suits over allegedly defective 3M earplugs back to Minnesota state court, saying neither this group's "novel" arguments nor her recent rejection of one of the company's defenses makes the federal forum inappropriate.
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July 27, 2020
3M Can't Duck Earplug Suit With Gov't Contract Preemption
A Florida federal judge has ruled that 3M Co. can't escape allegations that it sold defective earplugs by arguing its government contract preempts those claims, saying the company has failed to show the military exercised any real control over the earplugs' design.
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July 17, 2020
3M Can't Get Unredacted Info From DOD In Earplug MDL
A Florida magistrate judge on Friday denied a bid by 3M Co. to get full, unredacted medical records for three bellwether plaintiffs in multidistrict litigation over alleged health complications tied to the use of its Combat Arms earplugs, saying the records on their mental health aren't relevant to the "garden variety" claims of emotional distress.
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July 02, 2020
3M Wants DOD Employees, Data In Defective Earplug MDL
3M Co. told a Florida federal judge it has no choice but to seek to compel six U.S. Department of Defense employees to give deposition and the department to produce data in multidistrict litigation over the company's earplugs, which are said to have caused users in the military to develop tinnitus and suffer hearing loss.
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April 02, 2020
3M Can't Pin Defective Earplugs On Gov't, Military Users Say
3M Co. can't argue that a government contract preemption gives it clearance to exit a suit over its allegedly defective earplugs, a group of military members told a Florida federal court Wednesday, because the earplugs were also advertised for civilian use.