While We Wait To See The Public Docket Pretrial Order, In The Merck v. Merck Case -- One Minor Update...

Many here will recall that about a month ago we mentioned that a younger and quite capable USDC Judge had been assigned in Newark, to take over this long running, multi-billion dollar Lanham Act case. I am sure the idea was to fill out his relatively lighter calendar -- and give Judge Salas some breathing room.

But the USDC Chief Judge has placed the case back with USDC Judge Esther Salas, overnight -- which makes sense, since the file alone could / would take six months to digest at this point, spanning decades in the federal courts, now (and, in truth, all the way back to the Treaty of Versailles, in 1917). If you are really going to understand it, you need to read over a century of history, that is. So, wisely, Judge Salas will finish it, thus:

. . .TEXT ORDER REASSIGNING CASE.

Case reassigned to Judge Esther Salas for all further proceedings. Judge Jamel K. Semper no longer assigned to case. So Ordered by Chief Judge Renee Marie Bumb on 5/29/24. . . .

Now you know. Onward, grinning into the sunshine, and the birthday of my middle guy. . . a great day, ahead!

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