We are back in the trenches today after spending a wonderful day in New York with our lifelong best friend, in yet another of the blissfully endless celebrations of the milestone birthday we marked in December. We saw “The Band’s Visit,” a new musical based on a 2007 movie about eight members of an Egyptian
Opinions of Plaintiff’s Designated Experts – Including Herself — Excluded in Bravelle Economic Loss Case
This morning, our commuter train was packed with overjoyed Villanova students headed for the NCAA Championship Victory Parade. It was the second time in a few months that our fair city has been lifted by a huge sports triumph. And, though our heads were ringing by the time we reached our stop (“Indoor Voice” is
No Proof of Specific Causation Equals Summary Judgment for Defendants in Northern District of Alabama Risperdal Case
We write this as key elements of the Drug and Device Law Passover Feast languish in the oven. Tomorrow, the Drug and Device Law Bubbie will force four generations of our family – the devout and the not and everyone in between – to read (aloud) the lengthy prayer service that precedes the meal. The
Mostly Favorable MIL Rulings in IVC Filters Litigation
Here in Philadelphia, less than a week before the first day of Spring, it is sunny and calm, albeit a bit chilly. Not so last week, when we were hit with the second Nor’easter in less than a week. As much as sixteen inches of snow fell in some suburbs, and thousands of people, some
Bad “Innovator Liability” Decision from the Central District of Illinois in Generic Fluoroquinolone Case
We recently read a news story about a man who was imprisoned for 39 years for a crime he did not commit. The crime was grisly and resulted in the violent deaths of a 24-year-old woman and a small child, leaving a community outraged and law enforcement officials determined to hold someone responsible. So, burdens
California Superior Court Refuses to Allow Discovery in Aid of “Litigation Tourism” in Consolidated Xarelto Litigation
With one glance at the calendar, regular readers of this blog will have been able to predict the content of these prefatory paragraphs, later to be (tenuously) tied to today’s case. On Monday and Tuesday, as we have for nearly twenty years, we attended the annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, the second-oldest continuous sporting
Eleventh Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment for Defendants in Enbrel Case
This year’s Academy Award nominations came out last week. That means that we have spent the past few days setting a schedule for seeing all of the Best Picture nominees (well, most – we don’t do war movies and tend to opt out of love stories involving semi-animate objects) and scouring recipe blogs for perfect
California Court of Appeal Limits Duty of Clinical Study Sponsor to Intervene in Treaters’ Care of Study Participants
Last week, we took a short Western Caribbean cruise to celebrate a jarringly-advanced birthday. While the weather wasn’t an asset (it was 43 degrees when we departed Fort Lauderdale, and hovered in the 60s for most of the trip), we left behind record cold and treacherous ice in Philadelphia, so we had no climatic complaints.
Note to Experts: Do Not Cruelly Disparage Your Client’s Decedent, Curse Out Your Judge, and Flout the Court’s Orders, or You May Face Steep Personal Sanctions
Those of us who practice in the mass tort space spend vast portions of our professional lives dealing with our opponents’ experts. In our minds, we seek only to enforce the dictates of the Federal Rules and of the United States Supreme Court (and their esteemed state counterparts); to wit, to ensure that experts are
No Voluntary Dismissal for Plaintiffs, and a Summary Judgment Win for Defendants, in Central District of California Risperdal Case
In the mass torts world in which we find ourselves, glimmers of jurisprudential light can seem few and far between. Two things we love are good warnings causation decisions and sneaky plaintiffs getting caught at their own games. Today’s case has both. In Thompson v. Janssen Pharm., Inc., 2017 WL 5135548 (C.D. Cal. Oct. 23,