Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach

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

Daniel Fischel

Daniel R. Fischel is the emeritus Lee and Brena Freeman Professor of Law and Business and former Dean of University of Chicago Law School, and a co-founder of Lexecon...

and against Milberg Weiss

Milberg Weiss

Founding and HistoryFounded in 1965 by attorneys Larry Milberg and Melvyn I. Weiss, Milberg LLP is a U.S. plaintiffs' law firm...

for $45 million; the case settled for $50 million before the jury could decide punitive damages

Punitive damages

Punitive damages or exemplary damages are damages intended to reform or deter the defendant and others from engaging in conduct similar to that which formed the basis of the lawsuit...

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