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IN RE REZULIN PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION

No. 00 Civ.2843(LAK).

309 F.Supp.2d 531 (2004)

In re REZULIN PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION (MDL No. 1348).

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

March 15, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark P. Robinson, Jr., Kevin F. Calcagnie, Robinson, Calcagnie & Robinson, Newport Beach, CA, Irving H. Greines, Cynthia E. Tobisman, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, LLP, Beverly Hills, CA, Ramon Rossi Lopez, Lopez Hodes Restaino Milman & Skikos, Chris Tisi, Aschraft & Gerel, for Plaintiffs.

David Klingsberg, Steven Glickstein, Maris Veidemanis, Wendy S. Dowse, Kaye Scholer LLP, New York City, for Defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION (Corrected)

KAPLAN, District Judge.

Among the antecedents of our modern jury trial was wager of law, or compurgation, a form of trial by ordeal. The accused found a number of people and then took a solemn oath that he or she was innocent. The "companions, or `compurgators' as they were called, then swore that the oath which he [or she] had taken was clean. In other words, the court call[ed] upon the accused to produce a specified number...

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