Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach

SCOTUSCase
Litigants=Lexecon Inc. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach
ArgueDate=November 10
ArgueYear=1997
DecideDate=March 3
DecideYear=1998
FullName=Lexecon Inc. et al. v. Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach
USVol=523
USPage=26
Citation=
Prior=Defense verdict upheld by the Ninth Circuit.
Subsequent=
Holding=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.
SCOTUS=1994-2005
Majority=Souter
JoinMajority=Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, Ginsburg, Breyer
LawsApplied=usc|28|1407(a)

"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 $50 million; the case settled for that amount before the jury could decide punitive damages.

ee also

*List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 523

External links

* [http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/96-1482.ZS.html Decision]