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The Legal Intelligencer

Can Bystanders Make Failure-to-Warn Claims in Toxic Tort Cases?

A failure-to-warn claim is a staple of products liability litigation. The basic premise is that a manufacturer or seller failed to warn a consumer about an unreasonable risk of foreseeable harm associated with the use of a product.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Online Viagra? Glossy Startups Target Millennials

These are online prescription drug retailers, selling targeted products like sildenafil (generic Viagra), which gives those with—ahem—performance difficulties, assistance in that area, or maybe minoxidil, a hair growth drug.
5 minute read

Daily Business Review

US Sanctions on PDVSA Look Like a De Facto Oil Embargo

The Trump administration sanctioned Petroleos de Venezuela SA and the country's central bank on Monday, the latest move to raise pressure on President Nicolas Maduro after the U.S. recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Special Section: Products Liability, Mass Torts & Class Action

In The Legal's Products Liability, Mass Torts & Class Action, read about economic loss after Dittman, 5-year-old Tincher and what to do when automobile safety features just don't work.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Significant Environmental Cases in Pa. Courts During 2018 (Part 2)

The Pennsylvania appellate courts decided a relatively large number of environmental cases during 2018. In this part of the series, I will discuss enforcement, the Oil and Gas Act, valuation and a few other cases of note.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

How Hemp Became—and Continues to Be—Insanely Lucrative

Derived from identical plants, vastly easier to cultivate, and profoundly more profitable, industrial hemp always lacked legalized marijuana's sizzle.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Significant Environmental Cases in Pa. Courts During 2018 (Part I)

The Pennsylvania appellate courts decided a relatively large number of environmental cases during 2018. The following survey attempts to characterize them very briefly.
9 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

How States Are Regulating the Environmental Impacts of a Newly Legalized Industry

This column surveys some of the ways states have chosen to regulate the environmental impacts of cannabis legalization in an effort to understand which issues have been prime targets for regulation, where some regulatory inconsistencies between the states exist, and what may be growing targets for regulation in the future.
7 minute read

Corporate Counsel

In-House Privilege Issue at Heart of Ex-Acting GC's Gender Discrimination Suit

Defendants, New York-based Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings America Inc., its current GC and president, claim that plaintiff Jennifer Fischman's use of alleged privileged and confidential information learned during the job as the basis for her complaint warrants its dismissal.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Four J&J Talc Cases Moving to Trial in New York's Oft-Maligned Asbestos Court

Johnson & Johnson has had mixed success around the country in court fights with plaintiffs who say that using the company's baby powder caused cancer.
5 minute read

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