The court agreed with the firm that the removal statute permits a forum defendant to remove before service of a complaint—regardless of a state’s unique service rules.
The Eastern District of New York agreed with Northrop Grumman that it was entitled to summary judgment on all of plaintiff’s claims.
The case is Naimoli v. Pro-Football, Inc., No. 23-2020, —F.4th— (4th Cir. Oct. 29, 2024).
The case is In Re: Tepezza Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation, Case Number 1:23-cv-03568, U.S.D.C. N.D. Ill.
In a lawsuit alleging that Monsanto’s Roundup-branded herbicides caused cancer, the en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that a three-judge panel of the court had incorrectly applied a “force of law”…
The case is Whalen v. Monsanto in the Eastern District of Louisiana.
N.D. Ca. excludes the opinions of plaintiff’s sole case-specific expert.
A Cook County, Illinois jury returned a verdict in favor of Firm clients Sterigenics and Sotera Health, LLC after a twenty-eight day trial involving a plaintiff’s claims that emissions of ethylene oxide from Sterigenics medical-device sterilization…
The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia granted summary judgment in favor of Firm client, Monsanto, on plaintiffs’ failure to warn and breach of implied warranty claims in a product liability lawsuit involving…
The court affirmed the Western District of Texas’s dismissal of plaintiff’s innovator liability claims under FRCP 12(b)(6).
The District Court of the Fourth Judicial District of the State of Idaho dismissed an innovator liability claim against Firm client Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (“NPC”) for lack of specific personal jurisdiction. The court found that NPC’s…
In a case involving terbutaline sulfate, the Firm secured a voluntary dismissal with prejudice for Firm client Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, plaintiff brought the case…
A Texas district court judge concluded that plaintiff failed to state a claim under Texas law for innovator liability-styled claims against Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. On May 7, 2020, Chief Judge Orlando L. Garcia of the District…
An Idaho state court judge concluded that plaintiffs failed to state a claim under Idaho law for innovator liability-styled claims against Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. This is the first Idaho court to consider whether the state would…
A federal district court judge granted The Sherwin-Williams Company’s motion to dismiss an environmental and toxic tort class action. Plaintiffs in Brad Lafferty, et al. v. The Sherwin-Williams Company, Case No. 1:17-cv-06321 (D.N.J. Aug. 21, 2018)…
