Mass Tort Litigation Blog tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-500233 2009-11-13T13:00:00Z A Member of the Law Professor Blogs Network TypePad MassTortLitigationBloghttp://feedburner.google.com Choice of Law and Class Actions tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01287580fd83970c 2009-11-13T08:00:00-05:00 2009-11-13T13:00:00Z The Shady Grove case got me thinking about uniformity (or lack thereof) in class action law across the circuits and reminded me that in the MTBE Products Liability Litigation, Judge Scheindlin (SDNY) held that the interpretation of the requirements of... Joe Tort Issacharoff & Klonoff on the Mass Tort Settlements tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a679106c970b 2009-11-12T08:00:00-05:00 2009-11-12T13:00:00Z Samuel Issacharoff (NYU) & Robert Klonoff (Lewis & Clark) have just posted "The Public Value of Settlement" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This article, part of a symposium honoring the 25th anniversary of Owen Fiss’s Against Settlement, takes issue... Joe Tort Gilles on Consumer Class Actions tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0128757af467970c 2009-11-11T11:10:42-05:00 2009-11-11T16:10:42Z We all know judges are hostile to mass tort class actions, but Myriam Gilles (Cardozo) argues that consumer class actions are also suffering the brunt of judicial hostility in an article with the excellent title "Class Dismissed: Contemporary Judicial Hostility... Joe Tort Judge Requests Consolidation of Birth Control Suits tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a66664a6970b 2009-11-10T12:10:00-05:00 2009-11-10T17:10:00Z From the Tort Prof blog: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/tortsprof/2009/11/judge-requests-mass-tort-status-for-new-jersey-birth-control-suits-.html ADL Joe Tort Recap of Shady Grove Oral Argument tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a64eaac5970b 2009-11-09T12:07:20-05:00 2009-11-09T17:07:20Z Scotusblog has a very nice recap of the Shady Grove oral argument, better than the real thing in my opinion. I was lucky to be teaching Erie last week in my civil procedure class and have been thinking a lot... Joe Tort The Trouble with All-or-Nothing Settlements tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6a82160970c 2009-11-04T09:51:17-05:00 2009-11-04T14:51:17Z My new paper, The Trouble with All-or-Nothing Settlements, is now available on SSRN. I presented it at last week's symposium in Kansas on "Aggregate Justice: Perspectives Ten Years After Amchem and Ortiz." The theme of the conference got me thinking... Joe Tort Argument in Shady Grove Orthopedic Today tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a64adb98970b 2009-11-02T11:17:18-05:00 2009-11-02T16:17:28Z The Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments in Shady Grove Orthopedic v. Allstate today. This case is about the intersection between two perennial favorite topics among civil procedure enthusiasts: class actions and Erie. Will Hanna survive Shady Grove? I'm... Joe Tort WLF Web Seminar on Off-Label Communication tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6341de2970b 2009-10-29T12:45:48-04:00 2009-10-29T16:45:48Z On October 14, 2009, the Washington Legal Foundation hosted a web seminar, Communicating on Off-Label Treatments: Navigating the Treacherous Path Paved by Civil and Criminal Law Enforcement, with speakers Robert Salerno and Adam Hoffinger of Morrison & Foerster. Streaming video... Joe Tort Vioxx Verdicts tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a625abcd970b 2009-10-29T11:34:04-04:00 2009-10-29T15:34:05Z I am collecting all the Vioxx verdicts - here is what I have so far. I welcome reader corrections and information about the current status of all of these cases - have they been appealed to higher courts? settled and... Joe Tort Confidential Verdicts tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a67c99e8970c 2009-10-28T08:00:00-04:00 2009-10-28T12:00:00Z I was thinking about Erichson's post on the Prempro punitive damages verdict that has been temporarily sealedl so as not to bias the jury in subsequent trials. This is a very curious aspect of the law to me - why... Joe Tort South Carolina Settles Zyprexa Off-Label Marketing Case for $45 Million tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a67c90c9970c 2009-10-27T14:22:50-04:00 2009-10-27T18:22:50Z Hat tip to the TortProf blog on this one. You can see their post here. ADL Joe Tort Sealed Verdict in Prempro Punitives Trial tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6240608970b 2009-10-27T10:15:36-04:00 2009-10-27T14:15:36Z Yesterday, a Philadelphia jury found for the plaintiff in the punitive damages phase of a trial involving Prempro, the hormone replacement therapy. How much Wyeth (now a unit of Pfizer) must pay Connie Barton, however, remains secret. Judge Sandra Moss,... Joe Tort Class action filed involving Puerto Rico explosion tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6206266970b 2009-10-26T12:10:57-04:00 2009-10-26T16:10:57Z On Friday morning, a huge explosion occurred at a Caribbean Petroleum Corp. fuel storage facility near San Juan, Puerto Rico. On Friday afternoon, the first class action was filed. Here's the WSJ Law Blog report with a brief interview in... Joe Tort Passing of David I. Shapiro tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a60b6883970b 2009-10-20T21:16:41-04:00 2009-10-21T01:16:41Z Litigator David I. Shapiro, founding partner of the firm Dickstein Shapiro, has died. In a career that spanned many areas of litigation, Mr. Shapiro also was active in several prominent mass tort litigations, and came to focus on mediation as... Joe Tort Fall 2009 Newsletter for ABA Mass Torts Litigation Committee tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a661e12d970c 2009-10-20T20:58:13-04:00 2009-10-21T00:58:13Z The newsletter is now available and includes articles on Lone Pine orders, public nuisance law, federal preemption, sophisticated user and sophisticated intermediary defenses, the Fake Bad Scale Test, and document review. BGS Joe Tort Edward Cheng on the Reference Class Problem in Mass Torts tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a64ad86e970c 2009-10-19T00:40:24-04:00 2009-10-19T04:41:17Z Edward Cheng has sent me the following response to my post on his article A Practical Solution to the Reference Class Problem. Many thanks to Alexandra for raising a number of good questions about the implications of my article. I’ll... Joe Tort Fifth Circuit Ruling for State Farm in Hurricane Katrina Insurance Dispute tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a5f3ad0e970b 2009-10-19T00:06:19-04:00 2009-10-19T04:07:42Z More from AmLaw Litigation Daily. The opinion is here. Congratulations to my former Skadden colleagues Sheila Birnbaum, Doug Dunham, and Ellen Quackenbos, who represented State Farm. BGS Joe Tort Paxil Verdict tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a5ecf518970b 2009-10-16T10:14:01-04:00 2009-10-16T14:14:01Z Bad news for Glaxo. The first trial involving claims that the antidepressant Paxil causes birth defects ended with a $2.5 million jury verdict for the plaintiff. The family of Lyam Kilker sued GlaxoSmithKline in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, blaming the... Joe Tort Teaching Civil Procedure tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a5e58850970b 2009-10-15T08:00:00-04:00 2009-10-15T12:00:00Z Recently law professors have been taking a critical look at how we teach civil procedure - one of my core topics and relevant to this blog. On Concurring Opinions, a discussion is going on between two civ pro professors about... Joe Tort Which of these things is most like the others? The Reference Class Problem tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a5e0b3e5970b 2009-10-14T08:00:00-04:00 2009-10-14T12:00:00Z The central requirement of the rule of law is equality before the law, which means that like cases ought to be treated alike. One of the fundamental problems to valuing cases is to determine what cases are alike under what... Joe Tort