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Created: 16 March 2009 The National Law Journal (3/16, MacLean) reports, “Proposed reforms to ethical and campaign requirements for California’s judiciary would for the first time require trial judges to disqualify themselves in cases in which they received $1,500 or more in campaign donations from either side” and “in a second major change, lawyers challenging sitting judges for election would…
Created: 13 March 2009 The AP (3/13, Nuckols) reports, “A jury awarded about $150 million to 91 families Thursday who sued Exxon Mobil over wells contaminated by a gasoline leak north of Baltimore.” A leak in “an underground storage tank bled about 26,000 gallons of gasoline over 37 days in Jacksonville.” The company had already “paid a $4 million settlement…
Created: 11 March 2009 The AP (3/11) reports that Dr. Aubrey Miller, “a medical expert testifying Tuesday in the W.R. Grace trial described his disbelief when, arriving in Libby 10 years ago, he found that people who had never worked at Grace’s vermiculite mine were dying from asbestos-related disease.” He said, “To see an individual who had died of asbestos-related…
Created: 11 March 2009 The Legal Intelligencer (3/10, Needles) reported, “The wife of a man who died after his doctor allegedly failed to diagnose and treat him for heart disease has been awarded $4 million by a Berks County jury.” The jury deliberated for nearly five hours at the close of an eleven day trial and “found Dr. Donald J.…
Created: 10 March 2009 The Legal Times (3/9, Mauro) reported, “Last week’s decisive Supreme Court ruling against Wyeth in a landmark pharmaceutical product liability case may also close off a major front in a hard-fought battle by businesses and the Bush administration to insulate national corporations from state tort litigation.” Justice John Paul Stevens wrote for the majority, saying, “Wyeth…
Created: 09 March 2009 In a story that received coverage from many news sources, the New York Times (3/5, A1, Liptak) reports on its front page, “In a major setback for business groups that had hoped to build a barrier against injury lawsuits seeking billions of dollars, the Supreme Court on Wednesday said state juries may award damages for harm…
Created: 09 March 2009 The AP (3/6, Perrone) reports that one “day after the Supreme Court decided that federal rules do not protect drugmakers from state lawsuits,” Democratic lawmakers “reintroduced a bill that would allow similar lawsuits against companies that make heart devices, catheters, hip replacements and other devices.” In 2008, “the Supreme Court agreed with the pre-emption policy in…