By Amanda Bronstad | June 2, 2023
DuPont agreed to a $1.185 billion settlement involving toxic chemicals that includes a case brought by the city of Stuart, Florida, that begins trial on Monday. 3M remains in that trial, the first bellwether in multidistrict litigation over aqueous film-forming foams.
By Ross Todd | June 2, 2023
Davis Polk's Marshall Huebner and Benjamin Kaminetzky helped convince the Second Circuit to overturn a district court ruling finding the bankruptcy code didn't authorize liability releases for the Sackler family, the founders of the OxyContin maker.
By Avalon Zoppo | June 1, 2023
The decision "opens the door to other boundary-pushing components of restructuring plan(s)," law professor says.
By Amanda Bronstad | June 1, 2023
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday found that U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers violated the due process rights of Dechert partners Kimberly Branscome and Jay Bhimani when she imposed sanctions in 2021.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 31, 2023
Allison Brown, a lawyer for Johnson & Johnson, questioned the facts of the case, which is in California's Alameda County Superior Court: She noted that many of the stores where the plaintiff's mother testified she bought its baby powder were more than 100 miles from her house.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 24, 2023
A jury in Clayton, Missouri, issued its defense verdict late Tuesday after about five hours of deliberations.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 22, 2023
On Monday, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly found that a class of consumers did not have standing to sue Abbott Laboratories for economic damages tied to its recall of contaminated infant formula.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 22, 2023
"Sometimes, the nature and demands of a situation are far-reaching and consequential enough that the leader must be in the room," wrote U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers. "This is one of those times."
By Amanda Bronstad | May 19, 2023
U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo, in New York, denied a demand from defendants to disclose of 33 individuals in plaintiff's expert Dr. Jacqueline Moline's 2019 report, used in talc cases nationwide to link cosmetic talc to mesothelioma.
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By Amanda O'Brien | May 18, 2023
After decades at the firm, Bruce Merenstein and Samuel Silver are on the move to Welsh & Recker.
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