No New Trial Date Yet for DePuy ASR Hip Bellwether Case

CLEVELAND – U.S. District Judge David A. Katz has left open the starting trial date of a DePuy ASR hip implant case which was to have begun Sept. 24, saying only that trial in the suit filed by Ann McCracken has been continued to the call of the court and will commence within 90 days.

The Sept. 24 trial date for the first case scheduled for trial in the DePuy ASR MDL resulted from an earlier, two-week postponement to complete discovery and other pre-trial matters.

Judge Katz, who presides over the multidistrict proceedings in the U.S. District Court for the …