Bexis gave blood last weekend at the Red Cross – not just any old donation, either, but pheresis, a procedure that takes a couple of hours to complete. Because pheresis takes that long, the Red Cross supplies donors with movies to watch. This time it was the 2006 James Bond remake, “Casino Royale,” the type of movie that Bexis waits for the Red Cross rather than actually spends money to see. In “Casino Royale” a delectable baddie poisons 007’s martini with digitalis, nearly causing him to die from a v-fib.

Bexis being Bexis, James Bond’s digitalis overdose got him wondering about whatever happened to the Digitek MDL, which involved an FDA-approved form of digitalis, called Digoxin. We hadn’t posted anything about it in well over a year, since the court blew out some meritless economic loss class actions. Before that, we were impressed by the MDL court's Rule 11-based order requiring the plaintiffs’ counsel to demonstrate that they’d done a bare minimum of investigation of their clients’ supposed "cases" before filing suit.