MDL Judge Removes Stay on Welding Rod Remand Order

CLEVELAND -- The judge overseeing the welding rod products liability MDL has lifted a stay on a remand order she entered last year, effectively remanding 11 cases to state court in Mississippi. In re: Welding Rod Products Liability Litigation, MDL Docket No. 1535; Ruth v. Lincoln Electric Co., Case No. 03-CV-17003 (N.D. Ohio).

In a written order issued March 1, and released by the court today, Judge Kathleen O'Malley of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio denied, on rehearing, the defendants' opposition to the remand order, stating that the none of the arguments in objection was …