Court Denied U.S. Motion to Reconsider 1 Day Before JPML Created Centralized Docket

WILMINGTON, N.C. -- Just one day before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued its decision creating a centralized docket for all pending Camp Lejeune water contamination cases, a North Carolina federal court declined the opportunity to revisit an earlier decision in which it declined to dismiss claims asserted against the United States of America. Jones, et al. v. United States, No. 09-106 (E.D. N.C.).

In the Feb. 3 decision, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina rejected the arguments in the defendant's motion to reconsider, stating that it had "firmly rooted" its decision in precedents …