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By Riley Brennan | September 20, 2024
"Defense counsel's whimsical treatment of scheduled trial dates as tentative and subject to change is why the parties are now in a difficult—but not insoluble—position,'" said U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Savage of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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By Aleeza Furman | September 16, 2024
Judge Carmella Jacquinto of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas' Sept. 13 rulings rejected a multipronged effort from Exxon Mobil to challenge the verdict handed up in May in Gill v. Exxon Mobil.
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By Aleeza Furman | September 12, 2024
A jury determined Wednesday that Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller was defective, but the defect did not cause plaintiff Ryan Young's non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
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By Aleeza Furman | September 12, 2024
There's a lot at stake when it comes to the rulings building up to a mass tort trial, and in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, most of those rulings come from Judge Joshua Roberts. Roberts, head of the court's Complex Litigation Center, said his goal is to provide parties with ample opportunity to be heard while still ruling globally wherever an issue applies more widely.
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By Riley Brennan | September 3, 2024
"A closer examination of this split reveals that the circuits also differ on the precise contours of the doctrine. For example, courts disagree on whether state or federal joinder law governs the analysis and whether something beyond mere misjoinder is necessary to support a claim of fraudulent misjoinder," wrote U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Schmehl for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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By Riley Brennan | August 29, 2024
Amazon's counsel with Campbell Conroy & O'Neil filed their appearances and asked the court to vacate the default judgment and to dismiss the plaintiffs' complaint, arguing the company wasn't properly served within 90 days of the complaint being filed. Rather, Amazon claimed the plaintiffs sent a request for waiver of service, to which Amazon did not reply.
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By Aleeza Furman | August 28, 2024
"This was the clearest statement to date that Section 230 does not provide this catch-all immunity that the social media companies have been claiming it does," Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky partner Jeffrey Goodman, who represents the plaintiff, said.
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By Riley Brennan | August 27, 2024
Despite the owner's manual stating the cooker's built-on safety valves prevent this explosion, Grooms claims it failed as a dangerous amount of pressure built up inside the product.
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By Aleeza Furman | August 23, 2024
The company asserted in a Wednesday motion that one of the jurors behind the verdict later posted comments online suggesting the jury's decision was motivated by issues beyond what was presented at trial.
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By Aleeza Furman | August 19, 2024
"The position advocated by plaintiffs has the potential to substantially and considerably impact judicial administration and case assignments throughout the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at all judicial levels," Roberts held in his order.
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