The judge presiding over the multidistrict litigation involving plaintiffs who allege that the use of Zoloft caused birth defects in their children said there are now enough cases amassed in federal court for precedential rulings to be appropriate.

In the wake of a slowdown in motions for remand to state court, U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said in a status conference Tuesday, "We haven’t seen too many additional motions for remand. We think we’ve got enough of a body to create a precedential type of line of rulings."

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