Ill. Plaintiff Claims Wright Medical Lacked ‘Defendant’ Standing For Removal

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A plaintiff opposing transfer to the Wright Medical hip implant MDL contends that Wright Medical was a “respondent in discovery” in the Illinois action — not a defendant — and lacked standing to remove the action from state court. Bond v. Wright Technology, Inc., et al., No. 3:12-cv-00597 (S.D. Ill.).

Acknowledging that the issue is unique to Illinois law, plaintiff Mary Bond nonetheless argues in a June 6 motion to vacate a conditional transfer order that Wright Medical Technology Inc. and Wright Medical Group Inc. wrongly represented themselves as defendants in removing the action from Illinois state …