On December 3, 2008, the federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued an order transferring two actions pending against a Firm client, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation (NPC), back to the Aredia®/Zometa®...
On September 29, 2008, Chief Judge Todd J. Campbell of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee granted summary judgment to Firm client, Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation...
On July 22, 2008, the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas granted C.R. Bard, Inc.’s (“Bard”) Motion to Dismiss Pursuant to Forum Non Conveniens and 42 Pa. C.S.A. § 5322(e) in the...
In April, 2008, four weeks into an anticipated three month trial, Norfolk Southern railroad and Avondale Mills agreed to settle a lawsuit arising from the January 6, 2005 train derailment...
In a major victory for the former lead paint and pigments industry — and for corporate defendants generally — the Rhode Island Supreme Court on July 1, 2008 reversed a...
At the request of two separate groups of amici curiae, Hollingsworth LLP has submitted briefs to the United States Supreme Court in Wyeth v. Levine explaining why preemption of prescription...
On February 22, 2008 the US Army Corps of Engineers announced that it had incorrectly evaluated price proposals for a debris removal contract valued up to $2.5 billion over...
On October 26, 2007, Joe Hollingsworth presented Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation’s appeal to the Supreme Court of Kentucky in Gunderson v. Sandoz Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Among the issues the court had agreed...
On August 16, 2007, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey denied plaintiff’s motion to remand in Ripley v. Sandoz, Inc., finding removal to be proper...
In July 2007, the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas (Houston) issued a major opinion confirming the requirement of science-based evidence of specific causation in asbestos bodily...
In a 4-3 ruling, the Missouri Supreme Court rejected a public nuisance claim brought against former lead paint manufacturers by the City of St. Louis, holding that the City’s inability...
Hollingsworth LLP will co-sponsor the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution Spring Conference, “ADR in Bloom: Politics and Collaboration in the Nation’s Capital,” on April 26, 2007, at the Omni Shoreham...