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Hearings begin on fraud allegations in litigation over pesticides used on Nicaraguan banana plantations

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 14 2010

A California trial court has reportedly begun hearing evidence to determine if a 2007 $2.3 million jury award to Nicaraguan banana plantation workers who claimed they were sterilized by exposure to pesticides was based on fraud

Federal court finds claim for compensation from vaccine injury fund timely

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2010

The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has determined that a physician vaccinated for Hepatitis B timely filed a claim under the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program because the purported link between the vaccine and the multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms she experienced in 1997 was not known until 2004, and she filed her claim less than 36 months thereafter

Tenth Circuit underscores significance of procedural rules in prescription drug litigation

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2010

A divided Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals panel has dismissed an appeal from a trial court's grant of a prescription drug maker's motion for summary judgment, ruling that because the appeal was not timely filed, the court lacked jurisdiction to consider it

Issues narrowed in Texas bellwether GM rice contamination cases

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 8 2010

A multidistrict litigation (MDL) court in Missouri has issued a number of rulings on motions for summary judgment and to exclude or limit expert testimony in the bellwether cases involving Texas rice farmers who allege that contamination of the U.S. rice supply with genetically modified (GM) rice caused a precipitous decline in prices for their crops on world markets

Parts of defense expert witness testimony excluded in Children’s Tylenol litigation

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 13 2010

A federal court in California has decided to exclude parts of the expert testimony proffered by a major retailer defending claims that Children's Tylenol Plus Multi-symptom Cold product caused the death of a 4-month-old child

New Jersey Supreme Court faults trial court’s class-certification analysis in consumer-fraud action

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 14 2010

The New Jersey Supreme Court has reversed lower court rulings denying a motion to certify a statewide class of consumers who purchased a dietary supplement that allegedly fails to deliver its promised benefits

Missouri court refuses to certify statewide consumer-fraud class, finds class definition overbroad and individual issues predominant for “off-label” prescription drug claims

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 3 2010

A Missouri circuit court has denied certification of a statewide consumer-fraud class of persons and entities who purchased the prescription drug Neurontin for non-FDA approved, or "off-label" uses

Appeals Court considers federal funding of stem cell research

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 16 2010

A D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel recently heard argument on whether new National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines pertaining to federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research violate a law that places certain restrictions on such research

Ohio AG brings consumer sales practices action against Dannon

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 17 2010

The same day that the Federal Trade Commission announced a settlement over alleged deceptive advertising claims for DanActive beverage and Activia yogurt, Ohio’s attorney general filed a lawsuit alleging that The Dannon Co. has violated the state’s Consumer Sales Practices Act (CSPA) by failing to substantiate the health-related claims it makes for the products

Court approves discovery and motions schedule in Pelman v. McDonald’s

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • December 17 2010

A federal court in New York has entered an order approving the pre-trial discovery and motions scheduling order agreed to by the individual plaintiffs remaining in the litigation alleging that fast-food marketing caused adverse health effects related to obesity

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