IN RE: 3M COMBAT ARMS EARPLUG PRODUCTS LIABILITY LITIGATION

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF FLORIDA
PENSACOLA DIVISION
IN RE: 3M COMBAT ARMS
EARPLUG PRODUCTS
LIABILITY LITIGATION 	Case No.: 3:19md2885
This Document Relates to:
All Cases /
ORDER ACCEPTING SPECIAL MASTER’S
REPORT AND RECOMMENDATION IN PART
This Court has considered, without hearing, the Special Master’s Report and
Recommendation on leadership law firms’ distribution percentages of the common
benefit fund, ECF No. 4216, upon referral from United States District Judge M.
Casey Rodgers, ECF No. 4231.
This Court recognizes its role here is only to decide the limited issue of
leadership law firms’ distribution percentages of the common benefit fund as it
pertains to two law firm’s applications for a common benefit award. ECF No. 4231
at 1. As Judge Rodgers noted, this Court is “thoroughly familiar with the 3M MDL,”
having reviewed the common record and a Court-prepared white paper to acquaint
remand judges with the case history prior to presiding over bellwether trials.1 See
id.
As Judge Rodgers said, neither of the two law firms before this Court,
1 I actually presided over three bellwether trials, not two.
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Wagstaff & Cartmell and The Lanier Law Firm, filed an objection, and no objecting
firm 	raised 	any 	specific 	concerns 	with 	the 	Special 	Master’s 	recommended
percentages for these two firms. Id. at 1–2. Accordingly, upon consideration of the
report and recommendation and pertinent portions of the record in this case, and no
objections having been filed as to the proposed distribution to the two pertinent law
firms,
IT IS ORDERED:
The Special Master’s report and recommendation, ECF No. 4216, and exhibit
thereto, ECF No. 4216-1, is accepted and adopted as this Court’s opinion as it
relates to the distributions to Wagstaff & Cartmell and The Lanier Law Firm.
SO ORDERED on July 1, 2026.
s/Mark E. Walker 	____
United States District Judge
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