This post is solely by the non-Reed Smith side of the Blog.
There are lots of great pairings. Bud Abbott and Lou Costello. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen. Michael Scott and Dwight Schrute. Rum and coke. Chocolate and peanut butter. Chocolate and pretzels. Chocolate and strawberries. Chocolate and wine. We
It’s pretty easy to find well-known references to home. Home is where the heart is. Home Sweet Home. Homeward Bound. Lassie Come Home. ET phone home. Home is meant to strike up feelings of warmth, safety, happiness. No wonder it’s all over our songs, movies, and television. And, perhaps at no time more so then
The opinion, Schrecengost v. Coloplast Corp., 2019 WL 6465398 (W.D. Pa. Dec. 2, 2019), recently “predicted” that Pennsylvania would allow strict liability design and warning defect claims in cases involving prescription medical products. Id. at *11-13. In so doing Schrecengost was not only wrong, but loud wrong. First, without even a serious discussion, Schrecengost
We’ve used the phrase “one-two punch” before in the blog to describe a pair of legal decisions concerning the same product. Usually, our clients have been on the winning side, but that’s not always true, particularly in cases coming out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In November, the Pennsylvania appellate courts, in gynecomastia litigation, dealt defendants two
You can buy almost anything you want on line – and a whole lot of stuff you didn’t know you wanted until you saw it online. And, if you can think of something you want that you can’t find online, there are DIYers online just waiting to make you whatever it is you’ve dreamed up.
You’ve heard the saying – you can run, but you can’t hide. Well, in Multidistrict Litigation, we could have a saying – you can hide, but only until remand. It’s no secret that in most mass torts, only a handful of cases are in the spotlight. The bellwethers. The intention, usually by all parties
Allow us to wax nostalgic for a moment. Decades ago, an improbable series of events led us to Nashville, where we lived for several years, blissfully holding adulthood (and college) at bay and basking in all that the resident music industry provided. Last week, we had a perfectly joyous reunion with the dearest of friends
Did you ever wish there was a way to get a definitive answer to those age-old issues that have been plaguing humans since the beginning of time? Like — is it worse to fail at something or never attempt it in the first place? Or — does nature shape our personalities more than nurture? What
First, we apologize to our readers for not publishing this post earlier. It contains new information that we’ve known about for a couple of weeks, but we felt we had to keep it under wraps temporarily until Bexis filed an amicus curiae brief (last Friday) in one of the cases we discuss. Just as we
Last year was a banner year for removal before service, with both the Second and Third Circuits weighing in to support application of the removal statute according its terms, thereby giving their blessing to the so-called “snap” or “wrinkle” removal practice that this Blog has advocated for a decade. See Gibbons v. Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.