By Amanda Bronstad | March 27, 2024
U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp, overseeing more than 50,000 talc lawsuits in multidistrict litigation, cited recent changes to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and new science since the first Daubert hearing in 2020.
By Amanda Bronstad | March 25, 2024
Chief U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, in the Southern District of Illinois, has issued a series of discovery orders after finding many of the 5,200 lawsuits over paraquat are "implausible on their face."
By Colleen Murphy | March 21, 2024
"The record shows that the court struck the essential defense of non-liability. Its order is contrary to the fundamental principal underlying sanctions—to compel discovery compliance to ensure cases are decided on their merits," the opinion said.
By Charles Toutant | February 23, 2024
"It is unclear to the court how a sophisticated litigant can reasonably expect to fulfil its duty to preserve evidence by leaving the responsibility ... in the hands of restaurant manager, who is given absolutely no guidance," the judge said.
By Amanda Bronstad | February 1, 2024
Johnson & Johnson subpoenaed records concerning plaintiffs' expert Dr. Jacqueline Moline and a partnership involving attorney Andy Birchfield and one of its former lawyers.
By Colleen Murphy | January 17, 2024
"The panel now permits a firm who is seeking financial information to establish punitive damages to also represent the very person at the defendant who was the highest ranking financial officer who was charged with litigation strategy and the production of the financial documents," Counsel for Care One, Bruce H. Nagel of Nagel Rice said in an email to the Law Journal. "And to make matters worse, secretly emailed himself the same financial information that plaintiffs counsel has been seeking in the underlying case. The decision is simply inexplicable."
By Colleen Murphy | January 3, 2024
"In our opinion on the first appeal, we declined defendants' request to adopt a rule where shareholders in closely held corporations are presumed to hold the privilege individually as distinct from the corporate entity," the opinion said. "We continue to decline to make that rule in this opinion."
By Colleen Murphy | December 27, 2023
"Defendants contend the judge's order compelling Costa's appearance without compliance with Swiss law violates Swiss law and the Hague Convention," the per curiam opinion said. "The Hague Convention 'allows judicial authorities' in one signatory country to obtain evidence located in another signatory country 'for use in judicial proceedings, commenced or contemplated.'"
By Colleen Murphy | December 18, 2023
"Having reviewed the record, we discern no abuse of discretion in the trial court's determination as it relates to the counterclaims," the opinion said. "In short, ARF simply did not provide Seaside with any information that would support the counterclaims. Moreover, Seaside was prejudiced by those non-responses because without that information it could not prepare a defense or even move for summary judgment."
By Charles Toutant | December 4, 2023
Plaintiffs lawyer Jon Green said he heard messages of encouragement from lawyers whose clients were faced with fees of as much as $1,500 an hour in cases ranging from police civil rights to clergy sexual abuse.
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