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21 Jun 2024, 5:50 am by Paul M. Barrett
The law “is now poisoning the healthy online ecosystem it once fostered,” House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. [read post]
5 Jun 2024, 4:16 pm by Michel-Adrien
""We would look to product liability law in regard to the liability of potential defendants situated “upstream” in the chain of events leading to litigation. [read post]
24 May 2024, 11:03 am by Seeger Weiss
He has also served on the plaintiffs’ steering committee in the 3M Combat Arms Earplug Litigation, the largest mass tort in American history, the plaintiffs’ executive committee in the NFL Concussion Litigation, and was co-chair of discovery as well as lead counsel in several bellwether trials in the Vioxx Litigation. [read post]
28 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm by renholding
In the latest effort to enact a federal privacy law, Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, recently announced a bipartisan, bicameral draft of the American Privacy Rights Act of 2024 (APRA). [read post]
28 Apr 2024, 11:33 am by admin
Egilman wanted to keep the Ninth Circuit uninformed of his role in the silicone litigation. [read post]
13 Apr 2024, 3:33 pm by admin
” The Committee’s meeting, however, was attended by several leading epidemiologists who pointed to important methodological problems and limitations in the design and execution of the HSP.[9] In November 2000, the FDA” Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee determined that there was a significant association PPA and HS, and recommended that PPA not be considered safe for OTC use. [read post]
7 Apr 2024, 9:05 pm by Jack Solowey
” Because these questions are often litigated with mixed results, a liability regime that ignores them would clash with the time-tested subtleties of the common law. [read post]
5 Apr 2024, 2:58 pm by Seeger Weiss
Dave served as the co-chair of the Plaintiffs Steering Committee as well as head of the discovery committee in the 3M earplugs litigation, where he represented hundreds of thousands of men and women in uniform who suffered hearing loss, tinnitus, and loss of balance due to faulty earplugs, the largest mass tort in American history. [read post]
29 Mar 2024, 8:22 am by admin
” With the explosion of tort litigation fueled by strict products liability doctrine, lawyers pressed Frye’s requirement of general acceptance into service as a bulwark against unreliable scientific opinions. [read post]
18 Mar 2024, 6:43 am by Dan Bressler
The representation is particularly common in mass torts, where states and local governments sue companies for public nuisance. [read post]
21 Feb 2024, 6:04 am by Barry Barnett
Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation rejects disruption and waste as grounds for keeping states’ antitrust actions in Generic Pharmaceuticals MDL. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/barry-barnett-8313014_us-judicial-panel-on-multidistrict-litigation-activity-7160645037263904770–UaU? [read post]
5 Feb 2024, 5:21 pm by Steve Bainbridge
However, Texan tort reform may benefit post-reincorporation Tesla stockholders by allowing them to keep a greater percentage of recovery from a successful lawsuit. [read post]
30 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm by renholding
Papers authored by Area Organizers or members of the Program Committee (other than the chair, who is not allowed to submit) will be evaluated anonymously by subject matter experts selected by the Program Committee chair. [read post]
29 Jan 2024, 1:35 am by INFORRM
Surveillance More than 100 NGOs delivered a joint statement to the UN Ad Hoc Committee to set out non-negotiable redlines in relation to the proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty. [read post]
28 Jan 2024, 9:05 pm by renholding
The COMI rule creates uncertainty and litigation costs and opens the door to opportunistic behavior by debtors. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 12:18 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  She is also a member of the ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section, where she serves on the Medicine and Law and Life, Health and Disability, and Cybersecurity Committees. [read post]