Former N.J. Chief Judge Is Proposed as Special Master for Samsung MDL

The parties in the multidistrict litigation arising from last summer’s Samsung data breach agreed to propose Freda Wolfson, former chief U.S. district judge for New Jersey, as the special master in the MDL, they wrote U.S. District Judge Christine O’Hearn for New Jersey in Camden in a letter Friday (docket 1:23-md-03055). Wolfson retired from the federal bench Feb. 1 and rejoined her previous law firm, Lowenstein Sandler, as a partner and as chair of its alternative dispute resolution group. The parties continue to meet and confer on the issues discussed at the last status conference and agree no issues or disputes currently require the court’s attention, they told the judge. They agree the status conference scheduled for Thursday should be adjourned, they said. They will follow up with another update before the next scheduled status conference June 1, they said.