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July 11, 2007 |

Consumer Class Actions Usurping Personal Injury Claims

Plaintiffs lawyers are filing more class actions against companies under state consumer-protection laws in conjunction with, or even in place of, traditional personal injury class actions, which have become too difficult to certify. Defense lawyers say injury-related consumer class actions have grown as the plaintiffs bar has sought out new "lucrative" areas for monetary relief. But plaintiffs lawyers say the suits are a different "avenue of relief" for an economic, rather than physical, injury.
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October 19, 2006 |

Novel strategy pays off big in lead contamination liability case

TO BREAK THE paint industry's 15-year winning streak in lead liability cases, a team of New England litigators abandoned the standard products liability theories in favor of a novel application of the common law doctrine of public nuisance. The long march in what popularly has been called the Rhode Island lead paint case began in 1999.
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Lead Paint Makers Hope to Carry on Winning Streak
Publication Date: 2013-07-12
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A bench trial begins on Monday in San Jose in a suit that accuses five major corporations of creating a public nuisance by manufacturing and promoting lead-based paint despite knowledge it was harmful. Ten cities and counties in California are demanding nearly $1 billion in cleanup costs.

October 09, 2006 |

Novel strategy pays off big

To break the paint industry's 15-year winning streak in lead liability cases, a team of New England litigators abandoned the standard products liability theories in favor of a novel application of the common law doctrine of public nuisance.
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August 30, 2004 |

Movers

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld: Murry B. Cohen, a former justice on the Texas 1st Court of Appeals in Houston, joins as partner in the firm's Houston office�and other notable personnel shifts.
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June 03, 2013 |

Long-Running Lead Paint Suit Clears Hurdle

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