Aleeza Furman

October 24, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"This is very significant not just for this individual case but for the profession," said BrotmanLaw's Ellen Brotman, who represented Michael Pisanchyn.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

October 24, 2024 | Litigation Daily

"It's that outpouring of emotion that I am particularly interested in finding, because those people tend to be the most strident in deliberations and frequently for the plaintiff," Jill Leibold, a senior jury consulting adviser with IMS Legal Strategies, said.

By Aleeza Furman

5 minute read

October 23, 2024 | Law.com

The Massachusetts ruling accepts a legal defense from Monsanto that has, until recently, found little success. But the company recently gained new traction on the argument with a win in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

October 22, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Monsanto has placed increased emphasis on its argument that the plaintiffs' claims were preempted by federal law following the company's success on the issue in a federal appeals court.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

October 21, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Horne Daller partner Nicole Daller, an attorney for one of the plaintiffs, said the matter was a "unique type of employment case," sounding in tort law rather than more common employment claims like discrimination or wrongful discharge.

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

October 18, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Karen Marston held that, despite plaintiffs' arguments to the contrary, marketing discovery is not relevant to the broad legal issues the court has prioritized for early resolution.

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

October 16, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

"These are not case-specific issues," the plaintiffs contended. "The marketing was national in scale and magnitude, and everything that occurred with regard to these drugs over the last several years is in some way tethered to the marketing."

By Aleeza Furman

4 minute read

October 15, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

Judge James Crumlish III ruled that the plaintiff's assertion 'is way too simplistic, ignores the glaring matter of the timing of the decision, and is undercut by the documentary evidence that conflicts with [the plaintiff's] self-serving and unsubstantiated testimony.'

By Aleeza Furman

3 minute read

October 14, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

The plaintiffs bar has long fought to change the cap, but some lawyers said SB 1300 is not the way to do it.

By Aleeza Furman

6 minute read

October 10, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

The verdict marks the fourth plaintiffs win in the Philadelphia Roundup litigation since trials in the mass tort began a year ago, and the third win for the plaintiffs team of Kline & Specter and Arnold & Itkin.

By Aleeza Furman

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