Vioxx Litigation Goes Federal

Fresh from a win in New Jersey state court, Merck & Co. returns to Texas for the first federal trial of a Vioxx case, just 45 miles north of where a Texas state court jury handed the first Vioxx plaintiffs a $253 million verdict last summer. Some legal observers say that stricter federal rules and procedures involving the admission of evidence, jury selection and what lawyers can say in front of a jury give Merck the advantage in the trial, scheduled to begin today.

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