First Georgia DePuy Hip Implants Cases Filed in Dekalb County State Court
On February 4th, the first of several products liability suits against DePuy and DCMedical were filed. As we discussed in an early article on the blog, most of the cases are vulnerable to removal to Federal Court because there is a rule which says if the Defendant is not from the State where the lawsuit is brought and it is a big case, the Defendant has the right to move the case out of the local level Courts and into Federal Court. This is an advantage for DePuy because once the case is in Federal Court, it is subject to certain rules regarding Multi District Litigation.
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