Parties to La. ASR Hip Implant Suit Dispute Role of In-State Defendants

NEW ORLEANS - A Louisiana hip implant suit was deleted from a recent conditional transfer order after plaintiffs challenged defendants' assertion that in-state parties were fraudulently joined to defeat the federal court's diversity jurisdiction. Plaisance, et al. v. Starring, et al., No. 2:11-cv-032048-LMA-SS (E.D. La.).

Plaintiffs David and Pamela Plaisance moved to stay the proceedings in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Aug. 30 pending a ruling on their motion to remand to Orleans Parish District Court, where the case was initially filed.

The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation had included the case on a …