Miss. Supreme Court Orders Claims of 65Propulsid Plaintiffs Severed, Remanded

JACKSON, Miss. - A Holmes County Circuit Court Judge's order denying Janssen Pharmaceutica's motion to sever and transfer a Propulsid injury case involving 65 plaintiffs was overturned by the Mississippi Supreme Court on July 1. The court based on its decision in Janssen Pharmaceutica v. Armond (866 So.2d 1092 [Miss. 2004]). Scott et al. v. Janssen Pharmaceutica et al. No. 2003-IA-00287-SCT (Miss. Sup. Ct.).

The state's high court noted that the plaintiffs were misjoined under Mississippi Rule of Civil Procedure 20, which allows the permissive joinder of plaintiffs, because only two of the 65 plaintiffs resided in Holmes County where …