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The Legal Intelligencer

Federal Judge Rejects Shook, Hardy & Bacon's Attempt to Reschedule Upcoming Trial Against Panera's Charged Lemonade

"Defense counsel's whimsical treatment of scheduled trial dates as tentative and subject to change is why the parties are now in a difficult—but not insoluble—position,'" said U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Savage of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
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New York Law Journal

Manhattan Jury Awards $116 Million for Wrongful Death in 2018 East River Helicopter Crash

The award is the largest ever recorded in state history for a wrongful death claim on behalf of a single individual, according to Law.com's VerdictSearch.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

Clayton County Jury Returns $17M Verdict After Lawyers Sanctioned

"We look forward to appealing this result so that Honda can eventually have its day in court," said Chris Martin, a corporate communications director for American Honda Motor Co., Inc.
7 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Class-Action Suit Filed Against Jaguar for Claims of Defective Windshields in Land Rover Defender

This suit was surfaced by Law.com Radar, ALM's source for immediate alerting on just-filed cases in federal and state courts.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

$39M Jury Verdict Awarded in Novel Mesothelioma Case

Plaintiffs' lead attorney Mark Linder emphasized this is the first mesothelioma lawsuit that proceeded from this type of exposure.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Judge Rejects Exxon Mobil's Challenge to $725M Benzene Verdict, Adds $91M in Delay Damages

Judge Carmella Jacquinto of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas' Sept. 13 rulings rejected a multipronged effort from Exxon Mobil to challenge the verdict handed up in May in Gill v. Exxon Mobil.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lawyers Sanctioned; Pleadings Struck: What's Next for Honda?

"The Court believes the defendants" conduct undermined the fairness of the trial and influenced the jury with evidence that was specifically excluded by the Court," read a sanction order issued by Clayton County State Court Chief Judge Michael T. Garrett.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Monsanto Scores 2nd Phila. Roundup Verdict, but Fails to Stop Impending Trial

A jury determined Wednesday that Monsanto's Roundup weedkiller was defective, but the defect did not cause plaintiff Ryan Young's non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Meet the Judge Heading Philadelphia's Mass Torts Program

Judge Joshua Robert suggested lawyers who handle mass torts in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas try "resetting the dialogue," saying, "the more pedantic details or the more little things that we're going to be asked to decide are just going to bog us down."
5 minute read

Law.com

Did Johnson & Johnson's Proposed $8B Talc Bankruptcy Plan Just Jump to $9.1B?

More than a decade after taking on Johnson & Johnson with the first trial linking baby powder to ovarian cancer, attorney Allen Smith on Wednesday signed off on a proposed bankruptcy plan after negotiating for an additional $1 billion.
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