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February 05, 2002 |

Top Plaintiffs' Verdicts

A look at the top plaintiffs' verdicts of the year 2001, from asbestos to tortious interference.
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October 05, 2005 |

Keen Questioning by Jurors Demystifies Vioxx Trial

Whatever the outcome of the first New Jersey Vioxx trial, lawyers on both sides are less likely to be surprised than they were over the $253 million verdict in Texas against Merck & Co. That's because Judge Carol Higbee is letting jurors question witnesses. For the lawyers in the case, juror questions are sources of early feedback. And since the trial is being covered live by Court TV Extra, it's becoming an educational laboratory for lawyers on both sides of mass tort cases nationwide.
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October 05, 2001 |

In First of Many Cases, Drug Maker Loses $100 Million

When Macey Beth Johnson was one week old, she was prescribed the heartburn drug Propulsid to alleviate an acid-reflux problem. The medication was not approved for infants and had been linked to heart arrhythmia and heart attacks in adults, said her attorney, Jim Shannon. Now, a Mississippi jury has awarded Johnson and nine others $10 million each from the drug's maker.
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December 08, 2003 |

News in Brief

Chester Co. Judge Tapped for Federal Bench Washington The White House has nominated a Chester County trial court judge to replace a longtime federal judge who died last spring. Chester County Common Pleas Judge Juan R. Sanchez, a native ...
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November 22, 1999 |

Anna Nicole's Battle of Wills

A sensational quest by former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith for part of her deceased husband's hefty estate has turned into a unique fight over federal vs. state jurisdiction. Smith was 26 when she married oilman J. Howard Marshall II, 14 months before his death at age 90. Marshall's son has been fighting a Los Angeles bankruptcy judge's ruling in Smith's favor on claims that he says belong in a Texas probate court. The struggle sets up a jurisdictional clash that could be critical to the outcome.
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June 21, 2000 |

Has the Lobbying Ban Worked?

President Clinton swept into power promising to end Washington's favor-trading, back-scratching ways. On his first day in office, he signed an executive order banning top political appointees from lobbying their agencies for five years. Now, as Clinton's time in the White House comes to a close and hundreds of high-ranking administration officials contemplate lucrative jobs in the private sector, the White House has discussed loosening the strictures of the ban.
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December 28, 2011 |

Verdict Search

Verdicts and settlements in N.J. state and federal courts.
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December 03, 2012 |

Second Circuit reverses convictions of two lawyers in tax shelter cases

The convictions of two tax attorneys for conspiring to peddle illegal tax shelters at Ernst & Young were vacated Thursday by a federal appeals court.
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November 30, 2012 |

Circuit Reverses 2 Lawyer Convictions in Tax Shelter Cases

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit threw out the convictions on all counts of attorneys Martin Nissenbaum and Richard Shapiro in a conspiracy that included five different tax shelters from 1999 to 2001.
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October 20, 2010 |

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