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By Michelle R. Smith | August 4, 2006
When the state of Rhode Island dropped DuPont Co. from its lawsuit against former makers of lead paint last year, DuPont had agreed to donate $9 million to a group for cleanup and education eff
By Jessie Seyfer | September 19, 2007
Attorneys who once represented Qualcomm Inc. in its ill-fated federal patent case against Broadcom Corp. have asked a judge to pierce their client's privileged communications. With the threa
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By Brian Farkas | November 27, 2006
DuPont Co. has agreed to a tougher, temporary standard for a chemical used to make Teflon and says it will test more drinking-water supplies for contamination near its Washington Works plant along
By Sheri Qualters | February 12, 2009
In a decision of first impression for the circuit, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that an employee's lawsuit about a financially inefficient corporate process did not qualify for t
By Claudius O. Sokenu | March 18, 2008
On Dec. 21, 2007, in one of the rare stand-alone travel and entertainment Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the FCPA) cases, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of Justice A hr
By Alison Frankel | January 6, 2006
All of the necessary elements of a litigation blockbuster seemed to be in place.The science was good. The defendants -- a handful of enormous pharmaceutical companies -- still deny it, but two l
By Alyson M. Palmer | September 25, 2006
Senior Judge Peter T. Fay didn't say much during the first case up for oral argument at the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 15. But when the jurist did speak, he might have expre
By Leigh Jackson | July 3, 2008
Sean McGovern and his legal team at Lloyd's of London have long been used to handling international issues, given the nature of the insurance giant's impressive client base. But Lloyd's cur
By Victor M. Diaz Jr. | May 24, 2007
Before the ink was dry on the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, it was widely decried by plaintiffs attorneys and consumer groups as a blow to consumer rights and celebrated by tort reformers
By Peter Geier | February 7, 2006
A Florida state court judge has pledged to "ride herd" on alleged fraudulent silica claims, including those before him generated by a medical screening company that he said "reeks of fraud."
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