Plaintiffs' Liaison Counsel

Kara Hadican Samuels and Robert J. David have been appointed by the Court as Plaintiffs' Liaison Counsel in the Ochsner Fertility Clinic case, which concerns the mislabeling and mishandling of human embryos by the Ochsner Fertility Clinic. In addition, the Court has entered a case management order that requires the parties to proceed towards a December, 2010 class certification hearing. We have received Ochsner's document production, including audits of the facility, and will soon begin taking depositions to determine whether and to what extent common issues of law and fact exist among the various class members, many of whom are still unrepresented.