Woody Zimmerman has it backward when he argues that the two legal movements I helped start using lawsuits against smoking and obesity will cost so much money that they will "wreck" our economy ("Litigation frenzy," Forum, Sunday). Actually, they already are saving millions. The seven fat lawsuits that have been successful so far have cost about $30 million (much of which went to charity), but they have helped end supersizing at McDonald's, get deadly and fattening trans fat out of everything from Oreos to major fast-food offerings, force schools to stop selling fattening "liquid candy," pressured fast food and other companies to offer less fattening menu items and more nutritional information, etc. Because obesity costs the American economy more than $115 billion annually, these moves a...
Litigation over the drug Actos is gaining momentum as a mass tort. Lawyers around the country have begun filing lawsuits and investigating additional claims that the drug, prescribed to improve blood sugar in type II diabetics, causes bladder cancer.
The question is whether victims of the BP oil spill will have to pay twice: once for the spill, the environmental and economic damages of which will devastate their way of life and leave many in financial ruin, and again for daring to demand justice, which will consume their time, energy and hopes for years to come if they are held hostage by class-action lawsuits. Teams of lawyers from across the country have descended on the Gulf Coast to file potential class-action lawsuits to recover damages suffered by the lead plaintiffs and absent class members as a result of the BP oil spill.
Most major Occupy encampments have been dispersed, but they live on in a flurry of lawsuits in which protesters are asserting their constitutional rights to free speech and assembly and challenging authorities' mass arrests and use of force to break up tent cities. Lawyers representing protesters have filed lawsuits - or are planning them - in state and federal courts from coast to coast, challenging eviction orders and what they call heavy-handed police tactics and the banning of demonstrators from public properties.
C. Corcoran, a KTRS radio host who has talked himself onto and often off the air at seven radio stations in the St. Louis area, knows all about lawyers and lawsuits. You can say whatever you want to say on the radio as long as you say it correctly," says Corcoran, who has been in broadcasting in St. Louis for more than 26 years.
Most major Occupy encampments have been dispersed, but they live on in a flurry of lawsuits in which protesters are asserting their constitutional rights to free speech and assembly and challenging authorities' mass arrests and use of force to break up tent cities. Lawyers representing protesters have filed lawsuits - or are planning them - in state and federal courts from coast to coast, challenging eviction orders and what they call heavy-handed police tactics and the banning of demonstrators from public properties.
Meeting in closed session Tuesday, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors discussed the impact former board Chairman Bill Postmus' guilty pleas might have on a landmark legal settlement and related lawsuits. No action was taken, but a county spokesman said lawyers are looking into the matter.
Lawsuits over the hair loss drugs Propecia and Proscar have been filed in federal and state courts alleging side effects that include erectile dysfunction, infertility, depression and suicide. The suits claim that the drugs are dangerous and that drug maker Merck knew or should have known about the side effects and failed to warn about them.
The effort proved unsuccessful, but one of his bodyguards was killed in the attack. Because of these dangerous conditions, many highly qualified lawyers and judges choose to avoid potential risky lawsuits involving corruption, organized crime, and defending human rights activists.
Bryan Cave and one of its California lawyers are the subject of two legal malpractice lawsuits, including allegations that their advice led some 1,500 investors to suffer losses topping $100 million. The suits claim firm counsel Katherine Windler, currently in the firm's Los Angeles office, advised company leaders to operate in violation of state and federal laws. The lawsuits were filed April 28 in the central district of California by trustees in the bankruptcies of mortgage loan broker Estate Financial Inc. and its off-shoot company.
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