Mass Tort Litigation Blog tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-500233 2012-01-27T14:18:20Z A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network TypePad MassTortLitigationBloghttp://feedburner.google.com Second Circuit Refuses to Block Enforcement of Ecuador Judgment tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016300385904970d 2012-01-27T09:18:20-05:00 2012-01-27T14:18:20Z The Second Circuit issued an opinion yesterday reversing the district court and refusing to block enforcement of a judgment against Chevron in Ecuador. Coverage at Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog and Thompson Reuters News & Insight. If you haven't... Joe Tort Engle's Progeny Go to the Supreme Court tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e6012089970c 2012-01-24T10:57:21-05:00 2012-01-24T15:57:21Z The litigation that arose of out the Engle class action ruling (Engle v. Ligett Group, 945 So.2d 1245 (Fla. 2006) might be coming to the Supreme Court. As mentioned in my previous post, petitions for cert have been filed by... Joe Tort Martin Redish on Pleading, Discovery, and the Federal Rules tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760f0693f970b 2012-01-22T22:41:30-05:00 2012-01-23T03:41:52Z Professor Martin Redish (Northwestern) has an article, Pleading, Discovery, and the Federal Rules: Exploring the Foundations of Modern Procedure, in the January 2012 issue of the Federalist Society's Engage. BGS Joe Tort Chevron Appeals $8.6 billion Judgment to Ecuador's National Court tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162fff25fb4970d 2012-01-21T20:08:39-05:00 2012-01-22T01:08:39Z CNN reports that Chevron has appealed the $8.6 billion environmental judgment to Ecuador's National Court. The case has been closely watched not only for its high dollar amounts, but for the questions raised by Chevron about the integrity of Ecuador's... Joe Tort California Lawsuit Reform and the Need for Court Funding tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760e04436970b 2012-01-20T20:46:52-05:00 2012-01-21T01:48:50Z Tom Scott, the Executive Director of California Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse, has posted on Fox&Hounds a 2012 wishlist for legal reform. While there are many proposed reforms helpful to business, I was struck by one not usually associated with business... Joe Tort The Future of Class Actions (and How to Stop It) tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ffe6c3a9970d 2012-01-20T11:53:55-05:00 2012-01-20T16:53:55Z The title of this post is taken, very unimaginatively, from Jonathan Zittrain's The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. Adam Zimmerman has another great post on PrawfsBlawg today -- called the Privatized Attorney General -- about the... Joe Tort Zimmerman on Gilles and Friedman on Parens Patriae Suits tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760da152e970b 2012-01-20T09:56:10-05:00 2012-01-20T14:56:21Z Adam Zimmerman, who is blogging up a storm at Prawfsblawg, has an interesting post discussing a proposal by Myriam Gilles and Gary Friedman to use attorney generals to bring suits on behalf of victims for their losses. Such parens patriae... Joe Tort 2011 Choice of Law Survey tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ffda842a970d 2012-01-19T15:12:40-05:00 2012-01-19T20:12:40Z Symeon Symeonides has posted the latest update to "Choice of Law in the American Courts in 2011: Twenty-Fifth Annual Survey," to SSRN. Here's the abstract: This is the 25th Annual Survey of American Choice-of-Law Cases. It is intended as a... Joe Tort Federal Government to Require Pharmaceutical Company Reporting of Payments to Doctors tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e5ba573c970c 2012-01-18T02:15:23-05:00 2012-01-18T07:15:23Z The New York Times reports that under new regulations to be announced by the Obama administration, pharmaceutical companies will have to report payments to non-employee doctors for "research, consulting, speaking, travel and entertainment." The reporting requirements are to cover any... Joe Tort Zimmerman on Compensation Funds tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e5b7b836970c 2012-01-17T21:55:28-05:00 2012-01-18T02:55:28Z Adam Zimmerman (St. John's) has a nice post on Prawfsblawg called "The Rise of Executive (Branch) Compensation" in which he discusses the historical antecedents and politics of compensation funds for mass disasters. It reminds us that not all worthy victims... Joe Tort Top Products Liability Defense Firms in the AmLaw Litigation Power Rankings tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e5b71ae1970c 2012-01-17T20:54:25-05:00 2012-01-18T02:17:09Z American Lawyer has put together a list of most-appearing law firms over the past 10 years of its rankings for Litigation Department of the Year. Several firms on the list are cited for past awards for practice-area expertise in products... Joe Tort Southwestern Law School Symposium on Transnational Litigation and Civil Procedure tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef016760a5eccb970b 2012-01-16T18:40:45-05:00 2012-01-17T19:17:27Z Below is the announcement from Southwestern Law School, and here is the brochure. BGS *** Our Courts and the World: Transnational Litigation and Civil Procedure Southwestern Law School February, 3, 2012 On Friday, February 3, 2012, Southwestern Law School in... Joe Tort California Supreme Court Limits Certain Manufacturers' Asbestos Liability in O'Neil, Describes Navy's Conduct Leading to Asbestos Injury for Service Members tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e59ac594970c 2012-01-15T23:44:07-05:00 2012-01-16T04:44:07Z In O'Neil v. Crane Co., the California Supreme Court this past week rejected asbestos liability for manufacturers whose products are added by third parties to other products that contain asbestos. No. S177401, slip op. (Cal. Jan. 12, 2012) Download O'Neil... Joe Tort BP, the Gulf Coast Claims Fund, and MDL Plaintiffs' Lawyers tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ff94f576970d 2012-01-14T19:38:55-05:00 2012-01-15T00:38:55Z All that in the recent interesting op-ed from New York Times business columnist Joe Nocera -- BP Makes Amends. BGS Joe Tort Mark Hermann on Class Actions on Above the Law tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0168e56a60ad970c 2012-01-12T12:18:24-05:00 2012-01-12T17:18:24Z Mark Hermann has posted "Torpedoing Class Actions" in his column on Above the Law which highlights Martin Redish's book "Wholesale Justice" and my book review "Are Class Actions Unconstitutional?" Hermann asks why class action defense lawyers aren't bringing up Redish's... Joe Tort Russell Jackson's 2012 Consumer Class Action and Mass Tort Predictions tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0167605b410e970b 2012-01-11T11:45:44-05:00 2012-01-11T16:45:44Z Russell Jackson, a partner at Skadden Arps who runs an excellent blog on mass tort and consumer class actions, has a post up discussing his predictions for 2012. Jackson is always worth reading on mass torts. Interestingly enough, Jackson's second... Joe Tort Suggested Articles from 2011 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ff0188fc970d 2012-01-06T09:00:00-05:00 2012-01-04T16:00:31Z Here is a non-definitive list of articles published in 2011 that I can recommend. If there are others our readers wish to recommend, or if I missed your excellent article, send along a recommendation! (Note that articles posted to SSRN... Joe Tort Class Action Countermeasures on the 10 Most Interesting Class Action Articles of 2011 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01675ff628ff970b 2012-01-05T08:00:00-05:00 2012-01-05T13:00:00Z You can find a list of the 10 best class actions articles according to class action countermeasures here. Our own Beth Burch gets praise for her latest piece Financiers as Monitors, which I also thought is a great contribution to... Joe Tort Zimmerman on 9/11 tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0162ff012784970d 2012-01-04T14:00:00-05:00 2012-01-04T19:00:00Z Adam Zimmerman (St. John's) has a two new posts up on Prawfsblawg that are worth reading. In one he analyzes the differences between the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund and the new fund crated to compensate first responders. In the other... Joe Tort Zimmerman on Aggregate Litigation and Social Networks tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01675ff628ef970b 2012-01-04T10:11:30-05:00 2012-01-04T15:12:28Z Adam Zimmerman is guest blogging on Prawfsblawg this month, and has an interesting post on the potential effect of social media on aggregate litigation, particularly on settlements. Zimmerman, who worked with Ken Feinberg in distributing the 9/11 Victim's Compensation Fund,... Joe Tort