Litigation

May 9, 2010: Alabama Oil Spill Lawsuits: 256-702-5005

By Mark Zamora

Already there are as many as 24 federal lawsuits filed in Mobile. 

The class-action complaints seek to represent a wide and overlapping cross-section of people and business interests -- from fishermen to beachside condominium owners and managers to restaurants to seafood processors.

One suit filed last week by an Arkansas man seeks to represent anyone who made a nonrefundable deposit on a vacation property.

In July, a special panel of federal judges -- the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, often called the MDL -- will consider whether to combine all of the federal lawsuits and assign them to a single judge to handle all pretrial matters.

Full post as published by Trial Lawyer Resource Center on May 09, 2010 (boomark / email).