David Frederick of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel has made a habit of arguing successfully against federal pre-emption before the Supreme Court, which casts him in frequent opposition to big business and pits him against formidable adversaries. On Tuesday, Frederick faced former Stanford Law dean Kathleen Sullivan of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, who was representing Wyeth in a case asking whether the federal vaccine law pre-empts all design-defect lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers in state courts.
October 13, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
David Frederick, a partner at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel, has made a habit of arguing successfully against federal pre-emption before the Supreme Court.
It’s a high-stakes specialty that casts him in frequent opposition to big business, which tends to like pre-emption because it provides one set of regulations (federal) to deal with, instead of messy rules and tort actions in each of 50 states.
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