On March 4, the morning he won the biggest Supreme Court case of his career, David Frederick happened to be in Baltimore at a business meeting with Peter Angelos, the famed trial lawyer and Baltimore Orioles owner.
The Court ruled for Frederick in Wyeth v. Levine (pdf), a major defeat for Big Pharma. The win meant that Frederick’s client, Diana Levine, whose forearm was amputated because a Wyeth drug was improperly administered to her, would finally receive the $7 million a jury awarded her. It also meant that plaintiffs lawyers like Angelos would still be able to sue pharmaceutical companies in state courts in “failure to warn” cases like Levine’s.
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