And Now A Word From The Panel: A One-State MDL?

Welcome to the latest installment of And Now a Word from the Panel, a column that "rides the circuit" with the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation as it meets on a bimonthly basis.

With autumn upon us, the panel prepares for its September hearing session at the panel chair's hometown of Lexington, Kentucky, with the hearing to be held at the University of Kentucky College of Law.

Once again, the panel has a relatively paltry docket, with the panel considering only three new MDL petitions. At its July hearing session in San Francisco, the panel ruled on only two new MDL petitions.