A federal judge in Massachusetts has fined Medtronic Sofamor Danek Inc. and related companies $10 million for the behavior of their lawyers during a trial. The case involved a patent claim brought by DePuy Spine Inc. Senior District Judge Edward F. Harrington also ordered Medtronic Sofamor, which makes spinal implant devices, to pay a part [...]
The annual Stella Awards list, a list of the years seven “most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S.,” is nothing more than a fraud on the public. The so-called awards deal primarily with fiction, and many of the lawsuits listed never happened. The examples of what they describe as frivolous lawsuits are at [...]
A federal court has ordered Kuwait and Gulf Link Transport Company, a Kuwait-based contractor, to pay $4,907,048 in damages to the family of Col. Rocky Baragona. This is a most significant case involving the death of a U.S. soldier who was killed in Iraq. That’s because a contracting company is being held accountable in [...]
In a recent lower federal court ruling, the Center for Constitutional Litigation (CCL) won a major victory in the fight to assure that folks who are hurt or damaged by corporate wrongdoing can hold wrongdoers accountable and get justice in the civil justice system. In a ruling last month with wide implications for federal preemption [...]
We will be hearing lots about “federal preemption” over the next several months since it’s the latest strategy designed by powerful interests to destroy the civil justice system. However, I find that most folks don’t have a clue what the term federal preemption means or what it’s all about. To be candid, in [...]
