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Coverage of class actions and MDL, often targeting the design, manufacturing and marketing of defective products.
By Aleeza Furman | May 9, 2023
With the newer programs encompassing between 100 to 400 cases, Philadelphia's mass tort inventory as of May is near its lowest point since 2010.
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By Adolfo Pesquera | May 8, 2023
"The determinative question is whether the manufacturers' contacts with Texas, accomplished through direct and indirect control over instrumentalities and intermediaries, satisfy constitutional requisites to exercising specific personal jurisdiction. They do."
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 3, 2023
At a Wednesday bankruptcy hearing, plaintiffs' lawyers raised concerns that Randi Ellis, whose re-appointment as the representative for future claims is pending, wasn't impartial anymore given her alleged involvement in preparing the second Chapter 11 case.
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By Charles Toutant | May 3, 2023
After some large plaintiffs' verdicts in pelvic mesh suits before the COVID-19 pandemic, Ethicon has seen a reversal of fortune, with defense verdicts in at least five such cases in 2022 and 2023.
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By Jane Wester | May 3, 2023
In the case of Young Living's statements that its oils are "therapeutic-grade" and have health and medicinal benefits, the statements are "both provable and not 'patently hyperbolic,'" Circuit Judge Myrna Pérez wrote.
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By Aleeza Furman | May 2, 2023
"The rationale used by a minority of the lower-court judges is so paleolithically reactionary and radically pro-plaintiff, that it would threaten all of these established laws," said Matthew Vodzak on behalf of the Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel.
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By Aleeza Furman | May 1, 2023
Philadelphia's mass tort inventory has fallen more than 60% from the start of 2020, according to court data.
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 1, 2023
On Monday, 3M attorney Paul Clement told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit that the government-contractor defense should have immunized his client from lawsuits over its combat earplugs.
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Delaware Business Court Insider
By Ellen Bardash | April 27, 2023
Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster decided that major claims passed the demand futility test.
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By Lisa Willis | April 26, 2023
"Assuming the facts as they've alleged are true, there aren't going to be a lot of defenses," said Benjamin Widlanski, a Kozyak Tropin & Throckmorton partner, who is not involved in the litigation.
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