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47 Tylenol Liver Injury Cases Centralized In Philadelphia Federal Court
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Over the objections of Johnson & Johnson, a federal judicial panel on April 1 centralized 47 federal lawsuits alleging that Tylenol brand acetaminophen causes serious liver...
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MDL Formed For Lawsuits Alleging Injury, Death From Fresenius Dialysis...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - About 130 federal lawsuits alleging injury or death from dialysis concentrate made by Fresenius Medical Care North America were centralized March 29 in the U.S. District Court for...
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New Jersey Supreme Court Asked To Reconsider Denial Of Mirena Case...
TRENTON, N.J. - The New Jersey Supreme Court on March 21 said it is considering a new application to designate state court cases involving the Mirena hormonal intrauterine device (IUD) as a multicounty...
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Michigan Attorney General Seeks Grand Jury Probe Of Fungal Meningitis Outbreak
LANSING, Mich. - Michigan's attorney general on March 26 said he has petitioned a state appeals court to convene a multicounty grand jury to investigate whether New England Compounding Center (NECC)...
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Reverse-Payment Settlements Presumptively Anticompetitive, FTC Tells High Court
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Federal Trade Commission told the U.S. Supreme Court in oral arguments on March 25 that the court should treat reverse-payment settlements of patent litigation between the holder...
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Wholesale Drug Purchaser's Antitrust Claims Against Patent Holder Fail
NEW YORK - A drug patent holder that settled patent infringement litigation by granting licenses to and entering requirements contracts with generic manufacturers does not violate federal antitrust law...
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Judge Certifies Class In Securities Class Action Suit Against Sanofi Aventis
NEW YORK - In an opinion made available on March 21, a federal judge in New York certified a class of investors in a securities class action lawsuit, but ruled that one of the lead plaintiffs in the...
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Judge: Investor Failed To Plead Material Misstatement In Securities Lawsuit
COVINGTON, Ky. - Dismissal of a lead plaintiff's consolidated amended securities class action complaint is proper because the lead plaintiff failed to properly plead any materially misleading...
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AED Failures Prompt FDA To Require Premarket Approval Of Emergency Heart Devices
ROCKVILLE, Md. - After receiving about 45,000 reports of failures of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) over an eight-year period, the Food and Drug Administration on March 22 proposed that...
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Texas Appeals Panel Affirms Verdict For Exxon In Personal Injury Action
HOUSTON - A Texas appeals panel on April 2 upheld a defense verdict in a slip-and-fall injury case, agreeing that the defendant did not have notice of a potentially dangerous condition at its gas...
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Alabama Federal Judge: Summary Judgment Premature In Construction Contract Case
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge in Alabama on April 3 denied summary judgment to the plaintiff in a construction contract dispute, concluding that facts remain regarding whether construction work...
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Insurer Says Reinsurer Must Honor Settlement Made With Insured
MADISON, Wis. - An insurer told a Wisconsin federal judge on April 2 that the language of a pair of reinsurance agreements is clear that a reinsurer must honor a settlement made between the insurer and...
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Florida Federal Judge Compels Arbitration Of Crewman's Claims In Panama
MIAMI - A Florida federal judge on April 3 granted a ship owner's motion to compel arbitration of a crewmember's injury-related claims under the Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign...
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High Court: Class Certification In Antitrust Case Was Improper
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on March 27 ruled 5-4 that a district court may not certify a class action under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(b)(3) without resolving whether the class...
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U.S. High Court: Class Rep's Damages Limit Doesn't Defeat Federal Jurisdiction
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A class representative's stipulation that damages being sought were less than $5 million does not defeat federal jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA), a unanimous...
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Supreme Court Hears Arguments In Health Care Class Arbitration Dispute
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on March 25 heard oral arguments to address whether, in a dispute over a health insurer's reimbursement of physicians' claim, an arbitrator acted within his...
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Supreme Court Remands Washing Machine Mold Class Suit In Light Of Behrend
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on April 1 granted a petition for writ of certiorari filed by a manufacturer of washing machines, vacating a decision that upheld the certification of a class...
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Class Certified In Suit Seeking More Than $42M For Extra Rental Car Fees
RENO, Nev. - A Nevada federal judge on March 21 certified a class of rental car customers seeking more than $42 million for concession fees paid by the rental car company and passed on to customers as...
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Nevada Federal Judge Denies Certification, Limits Claims In Strip-Search Suit
LAS VEGAS - A Nevada federal judge on March 19 rejected a motion for class certification in an inmate's strip-search suit and granted partial summary judgment for the defendant on the plaintiff's state...
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Illinois Federal Judge Certifies Class Suing Over Faxed Ads
CHICAGO - An Illinois federal judge on March 13 certified a class of recipients of faxed advertisements from a medical billing company that allegedly did not have prior express permission or an...
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