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N.J. Judge Finds State's Interests Favor Protection Of Unfiled Expert...
TRENTON, N.J. - A New Jersey state court judge on May 14 ruled that unfiled transcripts from depositions of environmental experts for ExxonMobil Corp. should not be produced to a law firm, after...
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Johnson & Johnson Seeks To Centralize N.Y. State Court Tylenol Liver Injury...
TRENTON, N.J. - McNeil-PPC Inc. and parent company Johnson & Johnson have asked the New Jersey Supreme Court to centralize all state court Tylenol liver injury cases before Judge Jessica Mayer in...
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Bankruptcy Court Approves Revel Casino's Plan Of Reorganization
TRENTON, N.J. - The federal bankruptcy judge presiding over the Chapter 11 case of casino Revel AC Inc. on May 15 filed a final confirmation order approving the casino's reorganization plan, resolving...
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Indiana Appeals Panel: Man Was Negligent By Riding Bike After Drinking
INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana Court of Appeals on May 13 upheld summary judgment for the defendants in a personal injury action, agreeing that the plaintiff's own negligence was the cause of injuries...
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Arkansas Appeals Panel Upholds Defense Summary Judgment For Natural Gas...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A unanimous Division II Arkansas Court of Appeals panel on May 15 affirmed no evidence summary judgment for natural gas extraction companies accused of diminishing property values...
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'Girls Gone Wild' Parties: Transfers Not Fraudulent, Trustee's Motion 'Moot'
LOS ANGELES - Three of the subsidiary parties associated with bankrupt GGW Brands LLC, the parent company of adult video maker "Girls Gone Wild," on May 14 filed a brief opposing the trustee's motion...
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English Court Fines Decorating Company 81,943 Pounds For Asbestos Failures
LONDON - The United Kingdom Health and Safety Executive on May 15 announced that an English court had fined a decorating company for exposing employees, staff and the public to asbestos....(read more)
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Verdict In Actos Bladder Cancer Trial Overturned After Plaintiff Expert Excluded
LOS ANGELES - Five days after a jury returned a $6.5 million verdict, a California state court judge on May 1 granted defendant Takeda Pharmaceuticals America Inc. a nonsuit in the first Actos bladder...
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Actos MDL Judge Creates Pilot Bellwether Program, Narrows Pool To 8 Cases
LAFAYETTE, La. - The Louisiana federal magistrate judge overseeing the Actos bladder cancer multidistrict litigation on May 3 created a Pilot Bellwether Program, trimmed the pool of bellwether cases...
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Illinois Jury Awards $2.2M To Widower In 1st Humira Infection Case To Go To...
CHICAGO - An Illinois state court jury on May 9 found Abbott Laboratories negligent and ordered it to pay a plaintiff $2,244,063 for a near-fatal infection his late wife suffered while taking the...
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Ranbaxy Pleads Guilty, Pays $500M To Settle Federal Adulterated Drug...
BALTIMORE - The American subsidiary of Indian drug maker Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. on May 13 agreed to pay $500 million in criminal fines and civil penalties and to plead guilty to seven counts of...
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5th Orthofix Employee Pleads Guilty To Health Care Fraud, Paying Kickbacks
BOSTON - A fifth former employee of Orthofix Inc. on May 14 pleaded guilty to health care fraud and paying kickbacks as part of a widespread federal investigation into the marketing of the company's...
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9th Circuit Denies Rehearing For Ex-InterMune Chief In Wire Fraud Conviction
SAN FRANCISCO - Former InterMune Inc. CEO W. Scott Harkonen, M.D., on May 7 failed to get any of the 29 judges in the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to vote for an en banc rehearing of his appeal...
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C.R. Bard To Pay $48M To Settle Brachytherapy Kickback Suit, Won't Be Prosecuted
ATLANTA - Medical device maker C.R. Bard Inc. has agreed to pay $48.26 million to the federal government to settle False Claims Act allegations that the company paid kickbacks to health care providers...
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Government Must Convince 2nd Circuit To Stay Order For Plan B Contraceptive
NEW YORK - The federal government will be forced to make its case for a permanent stay of a court order lifting all restrictions on Plan B emergency contraceptives after a Second Circuit U.S. Court of...
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Novartis Asks Supreme Court To Find Punitive Damages In Drug Cases Preempted
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. on May 9 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to decide if punitive damages in prescription drug injury cases are preempted by federal law (Novartis...
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Improper Substitute Plaintiffs May Lead To Dismissal Of 2 Aredia/Zometa Cases
NASHVILLE - A Tennessee federal magistrate judge in the Aredia/Zometa multidistrict litigation on May 3 recommended that a plaintiff and his attorney be sanctioned with dismissal of their case with...
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Supreme Court Asks Defendants To Respond To Plaintiff's Drug Design Defect...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Although the defendants waived their right to respond, the U.S. Supreme Court on May 2 requested that defendants in a metoclopramide drug injury case file responses to a plaintiff's...
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Pennsylvania Judge Denies 'Different Manufacturers Exception' In Generic Case
PITTSBURGH - A Pennsylvania state court judge on April 11 granted summary judgment in a metoclopramide injury case, finding that the Different Manufacturers Exception in the Hatch-Waxman Amendment does...
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New Jersey NuvaRing Judge Denies Summary Judgment For Punitive Damage Claims
HACKENSACK, N.J. - Although the defendants in New Jersey's NuvaRing litigation last month won summary judgment against plaintiffs in the first group of bellwether cases, the state judge overseeing the...
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