7th Circuit: Cook IVC Filter Short-Form MDL Complaints Fall Short On Jurisdiction

(June 27, 2023, 12:38 PM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has dismissed two appeals involving short-form complaints filed in the Cook Inc. inferior vena cava (IVC) filters multidistrict litigation after finding that both plaintiffs failed to satisfy the $75,000 federal amount-in-controversy requirement and that federal courts thus lack jurisdiction....