DePuy Defendants Ask Pinnacle MDL Court to Compel Plaintiffs to Submit Information on Number of Pending Cases

DALLAS –– Defendants involved in the next Pinnacle Hip Implant trial have asked the court to compel the plaintiffs to respond to requests for information on the number of cases pending in the multidistrict litigation docket, maintaining that the information is necessary in order for the defendants to establish that the plaintiffs should not be able to reference the number of pending cases at the upcoming trial.

In a Sept. 15 motion filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, the DePuy defendants explained that during the first two trials to take place in the coordinated …