Montana became the first state to ban TikTok this month. You no doubt have seen the press and have read the spirited discussion condemning foreign spies on the one hand and championing First Amendment rights on the other. Litigation has already commenced. But, while all that was developing, you may have overlooked that Montana
Statutes of Repose
Statute of Repose is the Star of the Show in Tennessee Hip Implant Appeal

The long-planned New York trip is in the books, and it was a smashing success. The Drug and Device Law Dowager Countess (almost 88) was ecstatic throughout, and all of the puzzle pieces meshed seamlessly. We can report that The Music Man is a serviceable revival of a silly, illogical musical (most of our classic…
Fraudulent Concealment Does Not Toll Statue of Repose in Indiana

To borrow from the bartender with the twang and the bouffant at Bob’s Country Bunker, this blog’s got both kinds of medical products liability litigation – drug and device. And, while the difference between country and western music may be lost outside of Kokomo (and presumably Nashville), the difference between drugs and devices, admittedly…
More on Choice Of Law—This Is How It Works

We heard the other day from attorneys involved in the MDL direct filing, choice-of-law case that we wrote about a couple of weeks ago, Looper v. Cook Inc. Engaging in this kind of dialogue is one of the joys of blogging, even when our friends and colleagues write to tell us we got…
Georgia Statute of Repose Knocks Out Failure to Warn Case
Tennessee Statute of Repose Shuts Down Pelvic Mesh Case

On Christmas Eve we blogged about a pelvic mesh case that had the veritable “mixed bag” of rulings. A bad bit in that bag was the court’s ruling that the statute of limitations had not been triggered until a doctor performed a revision operation and told the plaintiff the operation was necessary to address issues…
Putting Some Teeth In Repose
It’s “Hip” to Be Timely: Plaintiff’s Hip Implant Claims Barred by Texas’s Fifteen-Year Statute of Repose
Statute of Repose Bars Suit in Biomet Hip Implant MDL.

We just returned from a four-night cruise that included a stop in Havana, Cuba. We won’t bore you with too many details about the dinner tablemate who proclaimed, “Let’s kill all the lawyers,” when we told her what we do for a living. And who commented, when we talked about an onboard trivia contest, “Well,…
Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas Statutes of Repose Limit IVC Filter Cases in Different Ways

In the annals of history, June 6 gets prime billing. That’s understandable, because the successful Normandy landings on D-Day (June 6, 1944), probably saved Western Civilization. (Or maybe that heroic endeavor simply preserved liberal democracy for another 75 years, now that we seem encircled by fanatics both home and abroad who view the Enlightenment…