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14 Nov 2008, 7:21 pm
Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, 531 U.S. 341 (2001), noting that if a state fraud claim "interferes with FDA regulatory decisions, preemption is likely to be (correctly) found. [read post]
14 Oct 2008, 3:20 pm
Bagley, No. 063846, 063847 In a conviction for aggravated murder and sentence of death, petition for habeas corpus is granted where: 1) by failing to interview defendant's mother, defendant's attorneys failed to uncover two critical categories of information that established "a reasonable probability that, but for counsel's unprofessional errors, the result of the proceeding would have been different. [read post]
13 Oct 2008, 12:12 pm
You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com] Highlights this week included: Senators Specter and Leahy express concern about ACTA Treaty (Techdirt) (Intellectual Property Watch) (IP Justice) (Michael Geist) (Public Knowledge) (Intellectual Property Watch) Commerce Department cites questionable stats, Chamber of Commerce uses them to ask Bush to sign PRO IP Bill into law (Techdirt) (Techdirt) (Public… [read post]
16 Sep 2008, 4:47 pm
And if Professor Murray will forgive the snippiness of yesterday's post, I'd like him to be one of the members of the Steering Committee. [read post]
23 Jun 2008, 5:00 am
We'll report here on one last thing that we heard at the ALI Mass Litigation conference in Charleston last month -- because they are words that should be in the public domain.A plaintiffs' lawyer speaking at the conference said that MDL transferee judges create trouble when they appoint to the plaintiffs' steering committee lawyers who represent no clients in the underlying mass tort.Thus: A prominent… [read post]
23 May 2008, 8:29 am
Louis law firm Carey & Danis has been appointed to serve as a member of the plaintiffs' steering committee in the multidistrict Trasylol litigation pending before a Florida federal court. [read post]
15 Mar 2008, 7:00 am
You can separately subscribe to the IP Thinktank Global week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com] Highlights this week included: WIPO Copyright Committee 16th session to discuss Broadcast Treaty, new proposal for exceptions and limitations agreement: (Public Knowledge), (Public Knowledge), (Intellectual Property Watch), (Public Knowledge), (Public Knowledge), (IPwar’s), (Intellectual Property Watch), (KEI), (Public Knowledge), (IP Justice), (IP Justice), (KEI),… [read post]
4 Feb 2008, 8:56 am
Plaintiffs' Legal Committee and, unless there is a severe surprise in the Warner-Lambert v. [read post]
17 Jan 2008, 3:51 pm
But since Mark Lanier of the Plaintiffs Steering Committee (PSC) is Smith's counsel, and since this trial has already been postponed once, one expects it will be postponed again (and likely settled) unless something unexpected happens to the settlement between now and then. [read post]
15 Jan 2008, 3:52 pm
It was heavily involved in the actions against Bausch & Lomb over ReNu contact lens solution (and its former #2 Timothy Balducci, the first to plead in the widening round of corruption scandals, won appointment to the steering committee of that litigation.) [read post]
10 Jan 2008, 8:06 am
Andrew Birchfield, an attorney at Beasley Allen and co-lead counsel on the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee for the federal Vioxx litigation addresses the negotiations themselves and the structure of the settlement.Andy says that in approaching settlement Merck required global peace -- that there couldn't be a "second round" because Merck had seen how disastrous open-ended liabilities… [read post]
9 Jan 2008, 2:41 pm
Andy Birchfield, an attorney at Beasley Allen and co-lead counsel on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee for the federal Vioxx litigation, countered that the settlement had been designed so that plaintiffs attorneys couldn't "game the system" or cherry pick the best cases to leave out of the settlement.As a caveat, we point out that this "The Vioxx Settlement" webcast weighs-in at just over two hours in… [read post]
5 Jan 2008, 9:30 am
In the words of the program description:"Speakers include Vanderbilt law professor Richard Nagareda, author of Mass Torts in a World of Settlement; Virginia legal ethics professor George Cohen; author and leading pharmaceutical mass torts defense attorney Mark Herrmann; Andy Birchfield, a member of the Vioxx Plaintiffs' Steering Committee; and Ted Frank, director of the AEI Legal Center for the Public Interest. [read post]
29 Nov 2007, 4:02 pm
(Full disclosure: CalBizLit doesn't usually engage in overly obvious bragging or shameless self-promotion, but will make an isolated exception here -- Bruce Nye was primary author of the defense briefs, working in consultation with an able and very helpful steering committee). [read post]
12 Nov 2007, 12:08 pm
An administrator will be assigned to help negotiate with the government, and the plaintiffs steering committee aims to try a version of that program for private carriers. [read post]
10 Nov 2007, 8:11 am
If we have a $4.85 billion deal, and right off the bat $385 million is coming off the top to the steering committee, you are left with a $4.5 billion amount. [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 6:28 pm
9, 2007 - Merck & Co., Inc. today announced that it has entered into an agreement with the law firms that comprise the executive committee of the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee of the federal multidistrict VIOXX litigation as well as representatives of plaintiffs' counsel in state coordinated proceedings to resolve state and federal myocardial infarction (MI) and ischemic stroke claims already filed against… [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 9:55 am
Merck has entered into a tolling agreement with the multidistrict litigation Plaintiffs' Steering Committee that establishes a procedure to halt the running of the statute of limitations for certain categories of claims alleged [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 6:29 am
Neither stroke claims that are hemorrhagic in nature nor transient ischemic attacks will qualify.Law firms on the federal and state Plaintiffs' Steering Committees and firms that have tried cases in the coordinated proceedings must recommend enrollment in the program to 100 percent of their clients who allege either MI or ischemic stroke. [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 6:29 am
Neither stroke claims that are hemorrhagic in nature nor transient ischemic attacks will qualify.Law firms on the federal and state Plaintiffs' Steering Committees and firms that have tried cases in the coordinated proceedings must recommend enrollment in the program to 100 percent of their clients who allege either MI or ischemic stroke. [read post]
