We don’t normally comment on verdicts, whether they favor our side or the plaintiffs, because the bare fact of a verdict doesn’t give us much to analyze, and analysis is what this blog is about. But we make an exception for the bizarre verdict handed down last week in the first bellwether trial in the
Finally, some good news out of California – at least when personal jurisdiction isn’t the issue.
Design and warning defects were the questions presented in Trejo v. Johnson & Johnson, ___ Cal. Rptr.3d ___, 2017 WL 2825803 (Cal. App. June 30, 2017), and the result, particularly on the design side, was much more to
A funny thing happened on the way to a defense verdict last year—after the jury decided that the defendant’s product was not defective, the MDL judge told the jurors that perhaps they did not “fully understand” and instructed them to try again. So the jury went back into the jury room, and having been duly