Fleming wants the high court to agree that a take-nothing verdict in his firm's favor in a 2016 trial, Harpst v. Fleming, be binding on the 8,000 plaintiffs in Wilson v. Flemming, his brief on the merits states.
June 21, 2023 at 04:34 PM
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The Texas Supreme Court granted review for a Houston law firm on the losing end of a court of appeals decision that held 4,000 fen-phen plaintiffs are not collaterally estopped by a final judgment in a related case.
Fen-phen was a diet drug combination of drug combination fenfluramine and phentermine, shown to cause fatal pulmonary hypertension and heart valve problems. It was withdrawn from the market in 1997, and numerous mass tort lawsuits resulted in more than $13 billion in legal damages.
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