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March 28, 2024 | Daily Business Review

What Not to Do: $43M Verdict Undone Over Hearsay

"Knowing that this testimony could evoke sympathy in the minds of the jurors, experienced trial lawyers used these improper and highly prejudicial statements to paint a detailed picture—one that graphically illustrated two independent, emotional conversations between a dying mother and her loving sons," Third District Court of Appeal Judge Monica Gordo held in the opinion.
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March 18, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Lawsuits Are Flying Over PFAS. But Can Plaintiffs Prove Actual Injury?

"It just makes it sound like everybody can sue over it, and that does not seem workable for our legal system," attorney John Galvin said.
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February 02, 2024 | Law.com

Massachusetts High Court Affirms Trial Judges' Right to Set Reasonable Time Limits During Trials

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court noted that evidentiary principles were "at least one source of a judge's broad discretion to impose time limits as necessary."
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November 09, 2023 | Law.com

At Oral Argument, Massachusetts Justices Mull Whether Imposing Time Limits on Trials Is an Abuse of Discretion

The central question at issue was whether the lower court abused its discretion.
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September 07, 2023 | National Law Journal

Arnold & Porter Lures 6-Lawyer Trial Team From Shook Hardy

The group has represented clients in the medical device, tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, among others, in pretrial litigation and as trial and appellate counsel.
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July 07, 2023 | Law.com

Massachusetts High Court Sides With Big Tobacco Companies, Holding Wrongful Death Action Was Time-Barred

"In GGNSC ... we were unequivocal that, in Massachusetts, we follow the majority rule that wrongful death liability is derivative," Justice David A. Lowy wrote on behalf of the court. "Accordingly, we follow the majority approach precluding recovery for wrongful death where the statute of limitations on the decedent's underlying claims ran before the decedent's death."
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October 14, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Miami-Dade Jury Awards $4.5 Million Verdict After Smoker's Lung Cancer Death

The estate of a woman who died from metastatic lung cancer was awarded $4.5 million in damages following a jury trial against two manufacturers of…
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September 21, 2022 | Daily Business Review

'Billion' With a 'B': Jurors Put Philip Morris on the Hook With Hefty Punitive Damages

The tobacco giant vowed to challenge the Massachusetts Superior Court jury verdict, with its spokesman saying the sum was "clearly excessive and unconstitutional."
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September 07, 2022 | Daily Business Review

In Florida Tobacco Case, Jury Sides With Cancer Sufferer's Family

A jury awarded damages of $850,000 to the estate of a man who died from laryngeal cancer, which was allegedly caused by cigarette smoking. After calculating…
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August 03, 2022 | Daily Business Review

Florida Lawyer Beats Big Tobacco in Nevada Supreme Court, Creating Nationwide Blueprint

"The person representing consumer fraud victims, let's say in Florida, can use this case as persuasive authority," said Fan Li of Kelley | Uustal.
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