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August 26, 2009 | Law.com

Zoloft Experts to Debate Effect of Drug on Assault

A man claiming the antidepressant Zoloft caused him to beat up his ex-girlfriend may tap an expert witness to back up his defense, a New York state judge has ruled. But the judge also held that an expert witness for Pfizer, the maker of Zoloft, may take the stand in rebuttal. At a pretrial hearing in January, the defense expert testified that some users of antidepressants like Zoloft may suffer "significant side effects which may include impulsivity, agitation, excessive aggression, grandiosity and hypomania."
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February 09, 2000 | Law.com

Out of the Closet, Into the Courtroom

The evolution in the law's attitude toward homosexuals is one of the subjects of Yale Law School professor William N. Eskridge Jr.'s absorbing new book, "Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet."
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April 06, 2012 | The Legal Intelligencer

Dechert Opens Office in Kazakhstan

Dechert has opened an office in Almaty, Kazakhstan, with the hire of Chadbourne & Parke's attorneys there.
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March 08, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Rothstein fraud eats at legitimate structured settlement industry

Personal injury cases often end when the victim receives payments over time rather than a lump sum. Scott Rothstein's scam - initially mislabeled a structured settlement - gave a black eye to honest businesspeople.
9 minute read
July 07, 2006 | National Law Journal

Law Firm Scores $249 Million Payday in ExxonMobil Class Action

Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson scored a dream payday Thursday when a federal judge awarded the Miami-based law firm $249 million in fees for its successful representation of gas station owners in a $1.1 billion class action case against ExxonMobil. Judge Alan S. Gold's ruling ends a ferocious battle among various attorneys and constitutes one of the largest fee awards on record. Gold awarded Stearns Weaver 75 percent of the total fees; four other firms will split the remainder.
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January 09, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Billion-dollar verdicts vanish

The billion-dollar jury verdict has disappeared from U.S. courtrooms. For the second time in the past three years, juries in 2008 issued no awards above that amount, according to data compiled by Bloomberg News. In 2007, there was one such verdict, for $1.5 billion. In the previous 14 years there was at least one billion-dollar verdict a year and a total of 26.
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February 09, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Obstacles stall plans to capture carbon dioxide

The cloud of carbon dioxide that burst out of Lake Nyos in Cameroon and asphyxiated 1,700 people haunts the plans of oil and power companies to bury their greenhouse gases underground."It was shocking," said Minoru Kusakabe, a Japanese geochemist who makes regular trips to the site of the 1986 disaster near the border with Nigeria.
8 minute read
July 15, 2005 | Law.com

Supreme Court Settles Supplemental Jurisdiction Debate

Crowded out by socially explosive decisions, two of the last cases of the Supreme Court term received little comment. Deciding a pair of cases in a single opinion, the Court held that the supplemental jurisdiction statute changed the rules regarding determination of the minimum amount in controversy for establishing diversity jurisdiction. Robert E. Bartkus finds the relative silence concerning the decision unfortunate, as it has key jurisprudential and practical effects on litigation in federal court.
9 minute read
November 21, 2007 | Daily Report Online

Attorney asks that plea agreement in BP plant blast be rejected

HOUSTON AP - An attorney for workers killed and injured in BP PLC's deadly 2005 plant explosion asked Tuesday that a court reject a plea agreement between the oil giant and the federal government because the proposed $50 million fine should be increased to $1 billion.U.S. District Judge Gray Miller agreed Tuesday to recuse himself from the case because he was a partner in one of the law firms that has been representing BP.
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September 28, 2007 | Law.com

Topical Index to Federal Case Digests

Federal case headnotes. Because executive branch officers, helping ensure faith-based community groups are eligible to compete for federal financial support, were not charged with administering a congressional program, challengers to their activities do not have taxpayer standing to sue under Flast v. Cohen.
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