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Bartlett - take it up

Dechert LLP
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USA
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May 2 2012

The First Circuit decided Bartlett v. v. Mutual Pharmaceutical Co., No. 10-2277, slip op. (1st Cir. May 2, 2012) today - suggesting that it is the worst court of appeals in the country for defendants in prescription pharmaceutical product cases

Darvocet plaintiffs' Hail mary batted away

Dechert LLP
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USA
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April 25 2012

We’ve posted before about MDLs and the Darvocet MDL in particular being the new “heavyweight” division for the one-two punch of product identification (can’t sue non-manufacturers) and generic preemption (can't sue generic manufacturers) to dispose of meritless claims involving generic drugs on a large scale

If at first you don't succeed....

Dechert LLP
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USA
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April 23 2012

Sometimes good ideas don’t prevail the first time or even the first few times they make their appearance

Uninjured docs' suit tossed

Dechert LLP
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USA
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April 19 2012

Sometimes it all depends on the docs

On getting jobbed

Dechert LLP
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USA
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April 13 2012

Paradise this one isn’t

Pain pump plaintiff’s promotion-based punitives precluded

Dechert LLP
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USA
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April 12 2012

It’s déjà vu all over again

A pro-defense decision good for the digestion

Dechert LLP
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USA
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April 11 2012

As an openly defense-oriented blog, most of our posts deal with cases in which plaintiffs could not make out their claims

What a difference an MDL transfer makes

Dechert LLP
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USA
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April 6 2012

Thanks to Jim Fraser at Venable for passing along a nice fraudulent misjoinder finding in the Fosamax MDL, Welsh v. Merck Sharpe & Dohme Corp., C.A. No. 11-3045, slip op. (D.N.J. April 3, 2012

GSK citizenship issue on appeal

Dechert LLP
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USA
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April 6 2012

We can’t say much of substance about this issue, as we represent GlaxoSmithKline in certain matters, but a remedy is in sight (we hope) for the peculiar situation that has developed with respect to GSK’s citizenship for purposes of diversity jurisdiction