This article is part of a bimonthly column that "rides the circuit" with the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation as it meets every other month. With summer in full force, the panel makes a trip to the upper northeast region for its July session in Portland, Maine, another state without a major league baseball team.
The panel enters the Pine Tree State with a lighter docket when it considers four new multidistrict litigation petitions, with one additional petition withdrawn from consideration. This docket builds on the 23 petitions already ruled on by the panel during the first half of the year.
Subsequent to the panel's May hearing session in Salt Lake City, there have been a number of rare moments in baseball, including a pitcher recording a win without ever throwing a pitch, and an even rarer 1-3-5 triple play — a triple-play configuration not seen in 95 years, well before the panel came into existence.
With these baseball rarities top of mind, we thought it would be intriguing to consider rare moments in the MDL world as well.
