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Personal-injury track status: by Case Management Order No. 35 (Aug. 15, 2025), Judge Richard M. Gergel vacated the bellwether trial set for October 20, 2025, and all related dates in CMO 26-I, citing a large number of unfiled cases, and opened a 21-day Filing Facilitation Window for personal-injury cases alleging one of the six listed injuries (kidney cancer, testicular cancer, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, liver cancer and thyroid cancer).
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What happened
Personal-injury track status: by Case Management Order No. 35 (Aug. 15, 2025), Judge Richard M. Gergel vacated the bellwether trial set for October 20, 2025, and all related dates in CMO 26-I, citing a large number of unfiled cases, and opened a 21-day Filing Facilitation Window for personal-injury cases alleging one of the six listed injuries (kidney cancer, testicular cancer, ulcerative colitis, thyroid disease, liver cancer and thyroid cancer). The JPML reported 15,264 actions pending in MDL 2873 on October 1, 2026; that count covers all actions in the MDL.
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