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New Jersey Law Journal

Justices Consider Waiver of 3rd-Party Liability in Workers' Comp Cases

Lawyers argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday whether an employment contract limiting a worker's right to sue a third party after an injury is enforceable.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Hosain-Bhuiyan v. Barr Laboratories, Inc.

Defamation Suit Partially Dismissed for Lack of Personal Jurisdiction, Failure to State Claim
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Opioid Suits by Cities Begin to Catch On in New Jersey

While state and local governments are filing a profusion of suits against drug companies to recoup costs of the opioid crisis, the trend has been slow to take hold in New Jersey. But opioid litigation is seen as having strong prospects if it can zero in on malfeasance by drug manufacturers and distributors, some observers said.
5 minute read

Delaware Business Court Insider

Gilead Off Hook for Enhancement of $2.5B Patent Verdict

U.S. District Judge Leonard Stark in Delaware ruled Friday that Gilead's conduct didn't warrant enhanced damages for willful infringement in a patent fight with Merck subsidiary Idenix.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Third Circuit Won't Rehear Wellbutrin 'Reverse Payment' Cases

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has let stand its August ruling upholding the dismissal of antitrust claims against GlaxoSmithKline.
11 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

King Drug Co. of Florence, Inc. v. Cephalon, Inc., PICS Case No. 17-1410 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 28, 2017) Goldberg, U.S.D.J. (23 pages).

Class certification denied where plaintiffs failed to satisfy numerosity requirement, as joinder of the proposed class members was not impractical due to cost and resource sharing through joinder mitigating the financial and logistical barriers to joinder. Motion for class certification denied.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

Judge Grants New Trial Over J&J Hip Implant

Tuesday's ruling by Cook County Circuit Court Judge Deborah Mary Dooling reversed a 2013 defense verdict that came out just before DePuy reached a $2.5 billion global settlement resolving about 8,000 cases.
10 minute read

Litigation Daily

Talk About Painful: The 30-Year War Between Tylenol and Advil

"Small nations have fought for their very survival with less resources and resourcefulness than these antagonists." That's what U.S. District Judge William Conner in Manhattan wrote in 1987 about the false advertising battle between the makers of Tylenol and Advil. Connor died in 2009. But the fight goes on. And on. Like a pounding, 30-year migraine.
24 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pfizer Accuses J&J of Stifling Competition From Rival Drug

Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has sued rival Johnson & Johnson over claims the company forced health care providers and insurers into exclusionary contracts aimed at blocking a competing autoimmune medication Pfizer recently introduced into the market.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

States Expand Probe Into Big Pharma Opioid Marketing

New York and Massachusetts Attorneys General and 39 others announced Tuesday they are issuing subpoenas to several drug manufacturers in connection with the opioid and heroin abuse epidemic.
3 minute read

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