Communication with State Court was Proper, Actos MDL Judge Asserts

ALEXANDRIA, La. — In response to plaintiff attorneys’ accusations that she improperly reached out to state courts to discuss the coordination of Actos injury cases, the judge overseeing the federal Actos multidistrict litigation explained that “cooperation between state and federal judges is not only advised, it is advised often.”

In an Aug. 23 memorandum, Judge Rebecca F. Doherty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana said the attorneys’ July 27 letter contained “unsupported and incendiary rhetoric” and “could be read as a thinly veiled attempt to intimidate or manipulate this Court as well as the …