Douglas J. Farmer
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Declining to exercise supplemental jurisdiction, the United States District Court Central District of California (Central District) is addressing high frequency litigants who file lawsuits in federal court.
Reed Smith
Sometimes we get an opinion back from a court, and the reasoning leaves us scratching our heads and wondering, Where did that come from? In the opinion, the court has decided the case on something that neither party ever argued.
Kane Russell Coleman Logan
This article launches a five-part series on Effective Mediation Techniques for Complex Cases. However, many of these same tactics can be deployed mediating most any type of case
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Today s case originated in the pelvic mesh MDL pending in
the Southern District of West Virginia. Approximately one
year ago, the matter was transferred to plaintiff s home
jurisdiction in Florida. Accompanying the case upon transfer
was defendant s motion for partial summary judgment on four
of plaintiff s claims. Plaintiff abandoned three of
those claims (strict liability manufacturing defect, breach of
express warranty, and breach of implied warranty), leaving only
plaintiff s failure to warn claim to be decided
by
Swintelski v. American Medical Systems, Inc., F.Supp.3d , 2021 WL 687202 (S.D. Fla. Feb. 22,
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On March 2, 2021, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) filed a
petition with the Supreme Court of the United States in a final
attempt to appeal one of the largest product liability verdicts
ever in the United States. In the past decade, over 20,000
plaintiffs have filed suit against J&J claiming that the
company s talcum powder caused ovarian cancer or mesothelioma.
Almost all of the cases against the New Jersey-headquartered
company have been brought in New Jersey, California, and Missouri,
with St. Louis County being an especially fertile ground for
We begin our analysis by addressing the foundation of the entire body of data analytic scholarship on appellate judging: competing theories of judicial decision making.