( March 27, 2026, 11:35 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The manufacturers of spinal cord stimulators XE "spinal cord stimulators" that plaintiffs in pending cases allege were defective and caused injuries are attempting “to muddy the waters” by pointing out “very minute differences in the factual allegations of the plaintiffs, while completely ignoring the substantial similarities between both the factual and legal allegations leveled against them,” according to a reply brief filed by a group of plaintiffs seeking to centralize the cases in a multidistrict litigation....