Welcome to Critical MassLaw.com’s weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic‘s broad impact on businesses, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has in its early decisions shied away from coordinating lawsuits against entire industries. Ted Frank wins another Seventh Circuit ruling in an appeal over “objector blackmail” payments. Find out who filed the latest security case against Zoom.

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Why Aren’t There More MDLs Over COVID-19?