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 drug product liability claims advances the…
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 5 years and will revaluate all…
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 to hear: challenges to the trial…
LJN’s Product Liability Law & Strategy (October 2007) (Eric G. Lasker)
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 under 28 U.S.C. Sec. 1441(b) despite…
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 injury claims. Georgia-Pacific Corp. v. Stephens,…
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 to identify the defendants that supplied…
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 hotel in Washington, DC. Joe Hollingsworth…
On November 16, 2006, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the contract liability of the United States to the firm’s client, the Caroline Hunt Trust Estate (“CHTE”) of Dallas, Texas. The appellate…
In 2005, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued its opinion vacating the judgment of the trial court and erasing an $18 million lost profits award against the Firm’s client, General Electric. GE…
The National Law Journal selected Hollingsworth LLP three times in seven years for its Top Ten Defense Wins list, including for its success in Crowson v. Davol, a major medical device trial in 2004. This complex…
In 2005, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims (“CFC”) issued its decision in the Winstar-related case, Caroline Hunt Trust Estate v. United States, a breach of contract action that was vigorously contested by the government both as…
The U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico issued its 67-page final summary judgment opinion dismissing the State of New Mexico’s natural resource damages claims against the Firm’s client General Electric and other defendants…
Joe Hollingsworth, national trial and appellate counsel for Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp. in the Parlodel litigation, is featured in a supplement to The American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel magazines, “The Future of Litigation.” The article, “Inexact Science”…
