WASHINGTON-A federal judicial panel conditionally remanded a brain-cancer lawsuit and class-action headset lawsuit against mobile-phone companies to courts in Florida and Pennsylvania respectively.
U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake of Baltimore last month recommended to the Judicial Panel on Mulitdistrict Litigation that the brain cancer lawsuit-Louther v. AT&T Inc.-return to federal court in Florida and the headset lawsuit-Farina v. Nokia Corp. et al.-be sent back to a federal court in Pennsylvania.
Mobile-phone industry defendants in both cases have less than two weeks to oppose the remanding decisions. If the JPML affirms its May 24 conditional remand, there is likely to be a new round of legal sparring over whether the two lawsuits should stay in federal court or return to state courts, where they were originally filed several years ago.
Federal health lawsuits remanded back to states
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