In the Paraquat Products Liability multidistrict litigation, more than 5,000 individual plaintiffs allege that they developed Parkinson’s disease as a result of their exposure to paraquat, a widely used, U.S. EPA-regulated herbicide. The cases have been consolidated for multidistrict pretrial proceedings in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Illinois. In four trial selection (i.e., […]
ALF long has been an advocate for ensuring that only reliable expert opinions are considered by courts and/or juries during any phase of litigation. In April 2024 ALF filed an amicus brief supporting NVIDIA Corporation’s certiorari petition in NVIDIA Corp. v. E. Ohman J:or Fonder AB, No. 23-970, a securities fraud suit governed by the
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”) authorizes the filing of civil suits for treble damages and attorney fees by “[a]ny person injured in his business or property by reason of” engaging in certain prohibited activities. 18 U.S.C. § 1964(c). RICO was enacted as a prosecutorial tool for fighting organized crime. The Second and
The Inflation Reduction Act’s highly politicized, misleadingly named, “Drug Price Negotiation Program” is a form of government-imposed price control. Under the Program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services selects certain “negotiation-eligible” brand-name drugs. Following a supposed “negotiation” and “agreement” with its manufacturer, each such drug can be sold within the enormous Medicare/Medicaid system only
The question presented by the pending certiorari petition in Parents Protecting Our Children v. Eau Claire Area School District, Wisconsin (23-1280) is whether parents have standing to challenge a school district’s “gender identity transition policy”—a policy, like many that have proliferated throughout the United States, that explicitly keeps parents in the dark if a student wishes
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The Mexican government has sued heavily regulated U.S. firearms manufacturers for $10 billion in damages and sweeping injunctive relief to redress “social costs” that it alleges to have incurred as a result of gun violence in Mexico. According to Mexico’s complaint, filed in Massachusetts federal district court, the defendant manufacturers have knowingly “aided and abetted”
The Supreme Court repeatedly has explained that the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”), 9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq., was enacted to quell judicial hostility to arbitration. FAA § 2 “is the primary substantive provision of the Act, declaring that a written agreement to arbitrate . . . ‘shall be valid, irrevocable, and enforceable, save upon such grounds as
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The Atlantic Legal Foundation long has been an advocate for ensuring that only reliable expert opinions are considered by courts and/or juries during any phase of litigation. In support of a certiorari petition filed by NVIDIA Corporation in a securities fraud suit governed by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (“PSLRA”), ALF has filed an
State and local governments have filed dozens of damages suits in state courts around the United States collectively seeking billions of dollars from major oil and gas producers for the alleged local effects of global warming and climate change. The potentially disastrous national and international ramifications of allowing these proliferating suits to proceed are enormously
In the consolidated Gilead Tenofovir Cases, the California Court of Appeal held that “the legal duty of a manufacturer to exercise reasonable care can, in appropriate circumstances, extend beyond the duty not to market a defective product” (emphasis added). More specifically, the court held that “a drug manufacturer, having invented what it knows is a safer, and at least equally
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