Significados de bellwether trial em inglês

The first bellwether trial, picked by plaintiffs' lawyers, began last week.

But the 6th Circuit seems determined to allow the bellwether trial to take place.

Those two counties are plaintiffs in a bellwether trial scheduled to begin in October.

A bellwether trial involving two of that state's counties is set to begin on Monday.

Yost countered that the state will be harmed if the bellwether trial results in inconsistent verdicts.

Chemours and DuPont both said they would appeal the verdict, which came in a so-called bellwether trial.

Chhabria has scheduled another bellwether trial for May and a third trial is likely to take place this year.

In fact, the appeals court said, some defendants in the MDL made similar state-sovereignty arguments ahead of the scheduled bellwether trial.

The Ohio counties scheduled for the bellwether trial have conducted extensive discovery and have reached several settlements, the 6th Circuit said.

Meanwhile, drugmakers Pfizer and Eli Lilly & Co each scored resounding bellwether trial victories in litigation over their respective drugs Zoloft and Cymbalta.

Status: The parties are preparing deposition and discovery pre-trial schedules, ahead of a first bellwether trial tentatively slated for August 1, 2016.

That's similar to what I call bellwether trials, she said.

Six bellwether trials are scheduled in the GM litigation for 2016, court records show.

Bellwether trials are sometimes used in product liability litigation in which hundreds or thousands of people have similar claims.

Monday's trial, which was to include 17 plaintiffs, had been akin to so-called bellwether trials that are common in mass tort cases.

He had scheduled six bellwether trials to help the parties assess how jurors value the claims in order to inform settlement discussions.