And Now A Word From The Panel: Tracking MDL Geography

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 the World Series in the rearview mirror, and with Thanksgiving falling on the second-to-last Thursday of November, the panel prepares for a somewhat rare November hearing session on the final Thursday of the month, as opposed to at the beginning of December.

The panel heads a bit west to San Antonio, Texas, for this month's session, when the panel considers only four new MDL petitions, a slight increase from the three new petitions considered by the panel in September, and a mere two petitions considered in July.