In a pattern seen previously in settlements over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, NFL concussion suits and other large MDLs, the lawyers representing real, living clients negotiated an additional settlement on behalf of anyone else who might sue in the future.
As published on Legal Newsline: CLEVELAND, Jan. 14 – A federal judge has ordered the nation’s leading pharmacy chains to turn over billions of nationwide prescription records going back more than 20 years – even as the American Civil Liberties Union and some states attack similar requests by the government Read more…
As published on Legal Newsline: WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Oct. 14, 2019 – The federal bankruptcy judge overseeing Purdue Pharma’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization granted the OxyContin manufacturer and its controlling Sackler family a two-week respite from opioid litigation to work on a settlement that appeases warring state attorneys general and Read more…
As published on Legal Newsline: CINCINNATI (Aug. 30) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has asked a federal appeals court to halt or dismiss the first two bellwether trials in opioid multidistrict litigation, in a major escalation of the long-brewing fight between state AGs and cities/counties seeking their own share Read more…
The National Association of Attorneys General and Ohio AG Dave Yost have finally stated what should have been obvious from the beginning: The strategy of recruiting thousands of cities and counties as plaintiffs to sue the opioid industry is a procedural and political fiasco. In unambiguous July 23 letters to Read more…
As published on Legal Newsline’s Northern California Record: SAN FRANCISCO, July 22, 2019 – On one coast, Bayer AG is fighting to reverse eye-popping jury verdicts based on a contested theory Roundup herbicide made by its Monsanto unit causes cancer. On the other, Johnson & Johnson begins hearings this week Read more…
As published on Legal Newsline June 26, 2019: BOSTON (Legal Newsline) – A lawyer at the center of the scandal over the $300 million settlement of a State Street securities case told a federal judge in Boston it was “stupid and sloppy” to sign a false application for his firm’s Read more…
Even if Bayer decides to settle, Feinberg might have a difficult time devising a fair system to pay claimants given the lack of scientific evidence.
As reported on Legal Newsline: San Francisco, May 14: On April 30, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency declared glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used weedkiller Roundup, to be safe. Less than two weeks later, a California jury ordered Bayer AG to pay $2 billion to a couple who Read more…
As reported on Legal Newsline: NEW YORK, May 7, 2019 – A prolific expert whose testimony is vital to asbestos lawsuits over talcum powder lied on the stand and failed to disclose the questionable history behind his most important samples, Johnson & Johnson said in a motion to dismiss a Read more…