Mass Tort Litigation Blogtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-5002332009-12-11T14:30:55ZA Member of the Law Professor Blogs NetworkTypePadMassTortLitigationBloghttp://feedburner.google.comGAO Says FDA Hasn't Made Enough Safety Reformstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a742e7b3970b2009-12-11T09:30:55-05:002009-12-11T14:30:55ZThe AP has the story here. While the FDA has made some changes, it has not transferred authority to the Office of Surveillance and Epidemiology. H/T Torts Prof Blog. ADLJoe TortThe Individual Proof Ruletag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a710db8d970b2009-12-07T09:00:00-05:002009-12-07T14:00:00ZOn December 1, 2009 Judge Weinstein issued a ruling granting partial summary judgment to the pharma company Eli Lilly in the lawsuit by the state of Mississippi concerning Zyprexia. The opinion can be found here. The folks over at Drug...Joe TortRAND Silica Litigation Study tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef012876128f36970c2009-12-04T15:56:24-05:002009-12-04T20:56:24ZA RAND study on the silica litigation has just been released. You can find the study here. H/T Mark Behrens and the Tort Prof Blog. ADLJoe TortAggregation, Community, and the Line Betweentag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6f873da970b2009-12-01T16:01:39-05:002009-12-01T21:01:39ZMy most recent paper, Aggregation, Community, and the Line Between, is now available on SSRN. This paper continues to develop to my larger project on nonclass aggregation, which draws from moral and political philosophy as well as social psychology to...Joe TortFosamax Bellwether Case Dismissedtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef012875e8a3e4970c2009-11-28T15:34:19-05:002009-11-28T20:34:19ZLast Monday Judge John Keenan of the Southern District of New York dismissed the second of three bellwether cases set for trial on Merck's osteoporosis drug, Fosamax. As David Bario of The American Lawyer reports, "the plaintiff in the second...Joe TortFlorida Verdict Against Philip Morristag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef012875e4c740970c2009-11-27T15:58:58-05:002009-11-27T20:58:58ZEarlier this week, a Florida jury returned a $300 million verdict in Lucinda Naugle's individual lawsuit against Philip Morris. The jury awarded $56 million in compensatory damages plus $244 million in punitive damages. Here's a WSJ Health Blog post, as...Joe TortPlaintiff Verdicts in Prempro Trialstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef012875d1cf4a970c2009-11-24T13:54:23-05:002009-11-24T18:54:23ZIn the hormone replacement therapy (HRT) litigation, plaintiffs won substantial verdicts in two trials in state court in Pennsylvania. In the trial that concluded yesterday, the jury imposed punitive damages of $28 million on top of the $6.3 million in...Joe TortSo What Should the Law Do About Jury Variability?tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6b2ea1b970b2009-11-18T17:19:16-05:002009-11-18T22:19:34ZIn my previous post pointing readers to Tim Lytton's thought provoking post on TortsProfBlog, I neglected to mention our own Byron Stier's work on the same issue. Interested readers might look to his piece, Jackpot Justice available on SSRN. Here...Joe TortOn the So-Called "Litigation Lottery" in Tortstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef012875aa0f89970c2009-11-17T09:00:00-05:002009-11-17T14:00:00ZTim Lytton has a very interesting post up on Torts Prof Blog about the tort system and the accusations of a litigation lottery. Here is the link. I am very interested in Lytton's critique. I think he is right that...Joe TortAround the Webtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef012875ab9d7f970c2009-11-17T00:46:10-05:002009-11-17T05:47:07ZDan Levine, Pair of Plaintiffs Lawyers May Face Different Fates in 9th Circuit Disciplinary Action, The Recorder (discussing disciplinary action in Nicaraguan pesticides case). Francis E. McGovern (Duke), The Second Generation of Dispute System Design: Reoccurring Problems and Potential Solutions,...Joe TortEmbedded Aggregation in Civil Litigation tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6a6cfb3970b2009-11-16T12:53:47-05:002009-11-16T17:53:47ZRichard Nagareda has just posted "Embedded Aggregation in Civil Litigation" on SSRN. I saw him present this piece at NYU and it is worth reading. I always enjoy Nagareda's work and this is no exception. The Article does a good...Joe TortChoice of Law and Class Actionstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef01287580fd83970c2009-11-13T08:00:00-05:002009-11-13T13:00:00ZThe 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 TortIssacharoff & Klonoff on the Mass Tort Settlements tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a679106c970b2009-11-12T08:00:00-05:002009-11-12T13:00:00ZSamuel 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 TortGilles on Consumer Class Actionstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0128757af467970c2009-11-11T11:10:42-05:002009-11-11T16:10:42ZWe 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 TortJudge Requests Consolidation of Birth Control Suitstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a66664a6970b2009-11-10T12:10:00-05:002009-11-10T17:10:00ZFrom the Tort Prof blog: http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/tortsprof/2009/11/judge-requests-mass-tort-status-for-new-jersey-birth-control-suits-.html ADLJoe TortRecap of Shady Grove Oral Argumenttag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a64eaac5970b2009-11-09T12:07:20-05:002009-11-09T17:07:20ZScotusblog 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 TortThe Trouble with All-or-Nothing Settlementstag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6a82160970c2009-11-04T09:51:17-05:002009-11-04T14:51:17ZMy 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 TortArgument in Shady Grove Orthopedic Todaytag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a64adb98970b2009-11-02T11:17:18-05:002009-11-02T16:17:28ZThe 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 TortWLF Web Seminar on Off-Label Communicationtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a6341de2970b2009-10-29T12:45:48-04:002009-10-29T16:45:48ZOn 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 TortVioxx Verdicts tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341bfae553ef0120a625abcd970b2009-10-29T11:34:04-04:002009-10-29T15:34:05ZI 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