District Court, S.D. Mississippi April 30, 1998, CIV.A. 3:96CV776LN (Coleman v. Danek Medical, Inc.)

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

TOM S. LEE, Chief Judge.

This case is one of more than two thousand separate products liability actions filed in this country by more than five thousand plaintiffs claiming that defective “pedicle screw fixation devices” which have been surgically attached to the pedicles of their spines have caused them to suffer physical injuries. Pursuant to 28 U.S.C.