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Fallout from Wal-Mart Case Begins
The Supreme Court re-listed two pending petitions for certiorari, allowing Philip Morris to submit a supplemental brief, filed by Paul Clement, among others, in its appeal of a class action judgment.Fallout from Wal-Mart case begins
The Supreme Court's blockbuster decision Monday in Wal-Mart v. Dukes, tossing out the biggest discrimination class action in history, is already having an impact on the Supreme Court's docket.Plaintiffs lawyers were granted $315 million in common benefit funds from the $4.85 billion settlement that Merck reached in the Vioxx multidistrict litigation in 2007. But they won't get a share of the $950 million settlement that the federal government and more than 40 states reached with the drug maker last November.
States fend off litigators' claims to share of $950 million
Florida and two other states that settled criminal and civil Vioxx claims successfully fought attempts by civil litigators to claim a share of the $950 million fund.Trending Stories
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