This seems so trivial, compared with the suffering in the Gulf Coast region now, but an article in the Houston Chronicle today reports the hundreds of Vioxx cases being coordinated in New Orleans are being moved temporarily to Houston.
The first trial was to have begun in New Orleans November 28. Judge Eldon E. Fallon is said to want to stay as close as possible to this original schedule. It is unclear, however, where the first trial might be held.