The Zetia® Anti-Competitive Price Practices Class Action Will Be All In One Phase; One Jury -- For Liability And Damages, On Two Sets Of Alleged Injured Parties.

The trial date in this likely to be multi-billion dollar matter is now just about one month off -- April 17, 2023.

Overnight, the court denied a series of opposing motions to either bi-furcate -- or tri-furcate(!) -- the trial, and use separate juries, to address the differing damages status of some of the retail purchasers of Zetia.

The able USDC trial judge feels, quite rightly, that streamlining it will reduce confusion, and conserve judicial resources. It also presumes juries will follow multi-step instructions.

And so, on Pi Day 2023, we watch as one of the final Fred Hassan legacy debacles. . . approaches a likely multi-billion dollar reckoning, at the ringside -- here, almost 12 years -- and at least a thousand posts. . . later (on this topic, alone).

That's quite a kick in the head. Smile. . . .

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