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...
In Whalen v. Monsanto, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana granted Monsanto’s motion for partial summary judgment. The court agreed with Monsanto that all of plaintiffs’...
In a case brought against firm client Bayer, the Northern District of California excluded the opinions of plaintiff’s sole case-specific medical expert and called for a Daubert hearing regarding the...
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...
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...
The Fifth Circuit affirmed Novartis’s summary judgment win in Johnson v. Novartis Pharm. Corp., No. 20-50462 (5th Cir. Feb. 5, 2021). The court, in an opinion issued without oral argument,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
A federal district court judge has precluded plaintiffs from seeking punitive damages at trial in a product liability case involving one of Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation’s cancer therapies. On July 31,...
Judge Ana C. Viscomi of the Middlesex County Division of New Jersey Superior Court granted firm client Avon Products, Inc. (“Avon”) summary judgment on all claims alleged against it. The...
The Eleventh Circuit affirmed Novartis’s summary judgment win in Jones v. Novartis Pharm. Corp., No. 17-1106 (11th Cir. Apr. 30, 2018). The Court, in a per curiam opinion issued only...
The Eastern District of Tennessee recently narrowed the coverage defenses of insurance carrier American Guarantee & Liability Insurance Company (“American Guarantee”) while allowing Norfolk Southern Corporate and Norfolk Southern Railway...