Of all the one-off posts that we’ve done, our post from 2011, “Depositions – When Can You Talk To Your Own Witness?,” has probably garnered the most ongoing use by litigators generally. Both inside or outside of our firms, we get questions or comments about it probably about once every other month. That’s
May 2019
Washington Blocks Attempt to Dodge Generic Preemption Rules
This post is from the non-Reed Smith side of the blog.
This blogger is just returned from Ireland where we toured castles and abbeys, drove through amazing landscapes on tiny roads with hairpin turns (can’t say enough about Connemara except that everyone should go), sang about Molly Malone and the Fields of Athenry, visited a…
Florida Court Transfers Hip Implant Case to a New Jersey Court That May Also Lack Personal Jurisdiction
This post comes from only the Cozen O’Connor side of the blog.
Margulis v. Stryker Corp., 2019 US Dist LEXIS 68555 (S.D. Fla. Apr. 23, 2019), is another case in which the plaintiffs filed a product liability claim in a court that did not have personal jurisdiction over the defendants. In this instance,…
Sixth Circuit Upholds Ruling that Kentucky Champerty and Usury Laws Bar Litigation Funding
We used to author occasional “There’ll Always Be Posner” posts, highlighting the latest ruminations of that lively, capacious intellect. But it is doubtful whether we will ever have occasion to pen another such post, since Judge Posner stepped down from the Seventh Circuit. But Judge Danny Boggs still sits on the Sixth Circuit, and he…