HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) – The Connecticut Supreme Court has said family members of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre can sue the manufacturer of the Bushmaster rifle used in the assault under a theory the company’s advertising Read more…
A small group of highly paid experts, one of whom recently testified his firm has made $30 million offering mostly pro-plaintiff testimony, are the key ingredient for more than 10,000 lawsuits claiming talcum powder is laced with deadly asbestos, forming Read more…
An op-ed in Investors Business Daily by Lisa Rickard, president of the Institute for Legal Reform on an arcane but important topic. For nearly a century, the American Law Institute (ALI) has provided an invaluable public service to judges and Read more…
New York’s specialized court for asbestos lawsuits could become a pivotal battleground for litigation over talcum powder as plaintiff lawyers seek to establish a record of wins in a court system known for liberal rules and big jury verdicts. Talc Read more…
An old one of mine from Forbes.com that details tactics still used in the world of mass-tort advertising, as more recently described by veteran Kevin Pflug at Medium.com: Like millions of other people, Rachel Wright jumped on the Facebook wave Read more…
My latest Legal Newsline story on Forbes.com: The cities of Oakland and San Francisco have replaced the private lawyers representing them in climate change litigation as a series of lawsuits against ExxonMobil, Shell and other oil companies head toward what Read more…
In a startling August exchange with lawyers on both sides of the opioid MDL in Ohio, U.S. District Judge Dan Aaron Polster laid bare the reality of multidistrict litigation, including how in most cases “lawyers drive the train,” not their Read more…
The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments this morning in a case that could end cy pres, the practice of steering money in class action settlements to organizations with absolutely no connection to the underlying lawsuit. Proponents say Read more…
Lawsuits against distributors, pharmacies will rely on `aggregate proof’ too many pills were sold, without any examples of improper prescriptions to show how it happened. My latest story for Legal Newsline on Forbes: Plaintiffs in bellwether trials against the opioid Read more…
As published on Legal Newsline: BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – The federal judge who unleashed a wide-ranging investigation into the fee practices of Labaton Sucharow was unimpressed by the class action firm’s agreement to install an ethics monitor and revamp its Read more…