Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach
Case Date: 07/09/1998
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Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, 523 U.S. 26 (1998), unanimously held that a district court conducting pretrial proceedings pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1407(a) has no authority to invoke 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) to assign a transferred case to itself for trial.
On remand, a jury decided in favor of Lexecon and Daniel Fischel and against Milberg Weiss for $45 million; the case settled for $50 million before the jury could decide punitive damages.
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