With new grass on the field, the 2019 baseball season is underway and optimism springs eternal. Here in Philadelphia, the Phillies have actually around the top of the NL east for the first time since, umm…., last year actually. But this year, having added possibly the best player and best catcher in the league,
New Mexico
Making The Desert Bloom

We’ve followed, albeit fitfully, the saga of the learned intermediary rule in New Mexico. Our first post on the subject, available here, protested an adventurous (and Erie-improper) decision by a New Mexico federal district court that ignored no fewer than five decisions by the New Mexico Court of Appeals (Serna v. Roche …
A Little Rain In The Desert

Several years ago (just writing that makes us feel tired) we put up a mournful post entitled In The Deserts Of New Mexico, in which we expressed our disappointment that a federal judge – any federal judge – would ignore no fewer than four intermediate appellate decisions from the New Mexico Court of Appeals and…
In The Deserts Of New Mexico

In June 2007, the West Virginia Supreme Court refused to adopt the learned intermediary doctrine.
We deplored State of West Virginia ex rel Johnson & Johnson Corp. v. Hon. Mark A. Karl when it came down, and we continue to deplore it today.
Although we didn’t like the result, Karl was good for us in…