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'Back to Business': Ozempic MDL's New Judge Pushes Litigation Forward in Wake of Predecessor's Death

Marston held the status conference just two weekdays after the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation reassigned the MDL to her. The litigation, which Pratter had overseen since its coordination in February, had gone about three weeks without a judge.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Product Defects Can Be Proven Based Upon Design Changes Made After the Date of Sale

Because the focus of a strict liability case is on the product, the relevancy of post-manufacture changes is quite germane and necessary for the jury to fairly assess the proffered alternative design and proximate causation.
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The Legal Intelligencer

Ozempic MDL Reassigned to Pennsylvania Judge Karen Marston

On Thursday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation reassigned the docket to U.S. District Judge Karen Marston, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, after the initial judge, U.S. District Judge Gene Pratter, 75, died on May 17.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Phila. Judge Slashes $1.8B Off of $2.25B Roundup Verdict

The plaintiff's lawyers said they "believe the reduction of the jury's verdict is a departure from established Pennsylvania law that we plan to appeal, seeking reinstatement of the full measure of compensatory and punitive damages."
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Connecticut Law Tribune

CooperSurgical Lawsuits Face Jurisdictional, Venue Challenges

"This (would not be a) ruling on the substance of plaintiffs' claims," Tiseme Zegeye of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, one of the attorneys for the plaintiffs, said. "This is determining where the lawsuits will play out. ... It's the first step in figuring out where these cases move forward and how they're going to play out."
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The Legal Intelligencer

Lawyers Forge On With Ozempic Litigation Amid MDL Reassignment Uncertainty

"When a client reads that their judge has passed, it is a scary, scary thing," said Jonathan Orent, a member at Motley Rice.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Despite Positive Signs to Amend BIPA, Businesses Must Remain Vigilant

On Jan. 31, 2024, Sen. Bill Cunningham introduced S.B. 2979 ostensibly to answer the call from the Illinois Supreme Court that the General Assembly "make clear its intent regarding the assessment of damages under the act" in Cothron v. White Castle.
5 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: A Defense Verdict in Cook County in the First Zantac Trial

Defense lawyers for GSK, led by Tarek Ismail of Goldman Ismail, and Boehringer Ingelheim, led by Andrew Bayman of King & Spalding, won a defense verdict from state court jurors who rejected a claim that the discontinued heartburn drug Zantac caused an Illinois woman's colon cancer.
7 minute read

Law.com

'They Shouldn't Allow 24/7 Access': Lawsuits Allege Kids Got Addicted to Video Games

On Thursday, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation heard arguments on whether to combine about two dozen lawsuits alleging children and young adults got addicted to video games.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

ExxonMobil Argues Co-Defendant's Settlement Barred Claims That Yielded $725M Benzene Verdict

The company asserted in a recent post-trial brief that the plaintiffs were not entitled to recover against ExxonMobil at all because they had already been compensated by another defendant for their injuries.
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