Yasmin and Yaz lawyers are gearing up for the next Yaz lawsuit status conference, which will be held on August 10, 2011 in the New Jersey Superior Court of Judge Brian R. Martinotti. Over 1000 lawsuits filed by Yaz lawyers in state courts have been centralized for pre-trial management under the oversight of Judge Martinotti, who will use the upcoming status conference to decide upon issues involving evidentiary discovery, depositions, and the selection of representative “bellwether” lawsuits.

Latest Yaz news on Yasmin and Yaz side effects lawsuits

Yasmin and Yaz news has been plentiful of late, with thousands of lawsuits filed by Yaz lawyers being consolidated in both state and federal courts throughout the country. Yaz lawyers and their clients have successfully argued for consolidation in states such as New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Yaz lawyers have also been equally successful in achieving multidistrict litigation in federal courts, with thousands of lawsuits consolidated under the management of Judge David R. Herndon in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.

August 10 conference to address Yaz side effects lawsuits centralized in NJ

As those in the medical community who follow Yaz news will know, there has been much coordination between the state and federal courts in regard to pre-trial rulings and the schedule of bellwether trials. However, the August 10 status conference will refer only to those lawsuits that have been centralized in New Jersey under Judge Martinotti.

The judge’s June 2011 case management order extended all discovery deadlines that had been set to expire any time during 2011 back to December 31, 2011. All matters pertaining to these and future discovery deadlines will be included in the agenda of the August 10 case management conference.

Yaz News: Yaz side effects bellwether cases to be selected

The most recent Yaz news to come out of Judge Martinotti’s court arrived with the previous case management order on July 8, 2011. The order laid the ground rules for the establishment of a bellwether discovery pool. The bellwether cases that Yaz lawyers ultimately take to trial will be selected from the lawsuits included in the discovery pool. The initial pool will include 18 cases, 9 selected by the Yaz lawyers of the plaintiffs and 9 by the Yaz lawyers for the defendant, Bayer.

Each side has been instructed to divide their selected cases according to the specific Yasmin and Yaz side effects the plaintiff alleges to have suffered. In other words, of the 9 cases selected by each side, three cases must involve the alleged injury of pulmonary embolism, three must involve gallbladder disease, and three venous thromboembolism. All of these conditions are clinically established Yasmin and Yaz side effects.

The selection of cases for bellwether trials, made in accordance with Yaz lawyers for both sides, has a current deadline of December 2011, with the first bellwether trial date tentatively scheduled for September 10, 2012.