A great Chicagoan, Ernie Banks, was famous for saying “Let’s play two” – an expression of pure joy about the game of baseball. Another great Chicagoan, Judge Richard Posner, recently came out with a pair of opinions that brought us some joy and reminded us of what good legal reasoning and writing looks like. In
It’s been a while since we’ve taken a comprehensive look at how TwIqbal’s been affecting prescription medical product liability pleading. We’ve done lots of posts about this or that case, but we haven’t synthesized anything lately – like in a year. So today we thought we’d take a look at exactly what’s been held
The following post is by our blogger emeritus, Mark Herrmann, now moved on to greener cyber-pastures. He gets all the credit and/or blame for what follows. He also suffers from some misconceptions (what else is new) which we’ll correct:
(1) Vale, not Bexis, is responsible for the MDL section of our competing work, so