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... genetic pre-disposition, exposure to toxic chemicals in the workplace, stress and the like. John Doe's Alleged Vioxx-Related Heart Attack In negotiating the settlement of litigation ... even though it had put a product on the market that increased heart attack risk. "John wasn't obese and he quit smoking in college," she says ... expert physician to determine whether it was Merck's negligence or random fate that caused John's death. I couldn't afford that." Litigation as Regulatory System Nocera complains ...

... to register is a punitive action or a preventive measure essential to protecting the public. In the Law Court decision that reinstated the first John Doe case, one justice compared the retroactive penalties to "the shaming and ridicule penalties of colonial times." He also ... only to a "silent" registry available to public safety officials. But Mitchell, who watched earlier this year as Gov. John Baldacci vetoed a bill that would have changed the registry and helped some of his clients, said he's ...

... Doe #3 had filed a motion to quash the subpoena, and on the same day that John Doe #8 joined in John Doe #3's motion. We have no idea how this happened, ... subpoena had been filed, and (b) the motions to quash aren't going to be of much use to John Does #3 and #8, since their identities have already been disclosed. Hopefully ... to fill in more blanks on this mystery, after we hear from the attorneys in Arizona. -->Motion to quash by John Doe #3* John Doe #8's Joining in motion to quash by John Doe ...

... 1-4, the Court refused to accept joinder of the four John Does, and dismissed as to John Does 2-4: August 1, 2006, decision* In its decision, the Court ... case, and ordered the plaintiffs to produce copies of the copyright registrations allegedly infringed by John Doe number 1. After receiving plaintiffs' new papers, including the copyright ... subsequently granted the ex parte discovery order the RIAA was seeking, but only as to John Doe number 1: November 30, 2006, decision* This was a totally ex parte ...

... Judges. RIPPLE, Circuit Judge. In February of 2000, the City of Lafayette, Indiana, issued John Doe, a convicted sex offender, a letter, informing him that he was banned from all ... and asked the boy to unzip his pants; after the boy refused, Mr. Doe unzipped the boy's pants and performed oral sex on him. In 1985, ... now come to the incident that precipitated the situation before us. In January of 2000, Mr. Doe's probation officer, Joe Hooker, received a call from a "confidential source," informing ...

... single lawsuit. As it turns out, according to a report from Technician Online, "John Doe #2" doesn't actually exist: Students win first battle with RIAA Judge ... except for one, noting that lawsuit as one individual lawsuit. But that lawsuit, labeled Doe No. 2, cannot be found by the ResNet. Typically, the University is able to locate each ... anonymous downloader by his or her IP addresses. In the case of Doe No. 2 though, the IP address could not be linked to a certain individual. Complete article. [Ed ...

In two new "John Doe" cases in Connecticut, one targeting students at Yale, the other students at the University of Connecticut, District Judge Janet Bond Atherton has granted the RIAA's ex parte motion for discovery of the identities of the students, but sua sponte severed as to all John Does except John Doe #1. -->December 9, 2008, decision, granting ex parte discovery motion, and sua sponte severing as to all John Does other than John Doe #1 (Also at : 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 99791) *-->* ...

... a fifth motion to vacate ex parte order being made, in the RIAA's campaign against college students, this one by a "John Doe" who is a student at North Carolina State University, in LaFace v. Does 1-38. The student has until October 17th to file a motion to vacate. He is being represented by attorney Steve Robertson, of Robertson, Medlin & Blocker, and is looking for other NC State "John Does" to join him and share expenses. This is the 5th motion of which we are aware by college ...

... do expedited discovery the University System will loose or destroy the information we need to identify and then serve the Doe defendants as identifiable defendants". That is just false. This is at least the 3rd case brought by these plaintiffs against various Does; ... supra at 263, Judge Tauro did just that when confronted with an inadequate factual and legal showing at the beginning of a John Doe proceeding. -->Motion to strike Linares declaration* Affidavit of Theodore G. Fletcher* Motion to ...

... Does 1-4, after the university advised the Court that it could not identify John Does #8, 9, and 14 to a reasonable degree of technical certainty, Judge Nancy Gertner ... 's 9/23/08 Letter as a Motion to Quash and GRANTS the motion with respect to Doe Defendants # 8, 9, and 14. The University has adequately demonstrated that it is not able ... 3/31/08 Order, the Court declines to authorize discovery and quashes the subpoena as to Does # 8, 9, and 14. Order (a) treating University's letter as motion to ...