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|VIDEO| How Katherine Hacker's Video Game-Inspired Demonstrative Helped Clear Monsanto in Roundup Trial

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Mar 25, 2024 10:28:48 AM


Regardless of which side of the courtroom you’re on, the right demonstratives in openings can be powerful tools to frame the message at the heart of your case. And in a trial last year against Monsanto over claims the company’s “Roundup” weed killer caused a woman’s cancer, a Katherine Hacker demonstrative that took inspiration from an iconic video game laid the groundwork for a major defense verdict. 

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Topics: Products Liability, Missouri, Gordon v. Monsanto

|VIDEO| The Crucial Evidence That Set Up $7M Verdict in Yamaha Rollover Trial

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Mar 6, 2024 2:00:56 PM

Excerpts from Frank Bayuk's opening at trial against Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of North America.


February’s $7 million verdict against Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of America for the injuries a Georgia toddler suffered in a golf car rollover crash was keyed by powerful video intended to undermine a central defense in the case, an attorney for the child’s family told CVN. Hall, et al. v. Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of North America, 20-A-1696. 

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Topics: Products Liability, Georgia, Hall, et al. v. Yamaha

Yamaha Faces Trial Over Golf Car Rollover Crash That Injured Georgia Toddler

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Feb 7, 2024 2:58:47 PM

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Marietta, GA— Attorneys Tuesday debated what caused a golf car rollover crash that seriously injured a Georgia child, as trial opened against the vehicle’s maker, Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of America. Hall v. Yamaha Motor Manufacturing Corporation of America, 20-A-1696.

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Topics: Products Liability, Georgia, Hall, et al. v. Yamaha

CVN's Top 10 Most Impressive Defense Verdicts of 2023

Posted by David Siegel on Jan 24, 2024 1:48:47 PM

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Topics: Products Liability, tobacco, Florida, Malpractice, California

MA Jury Hands Down $20M+ Tobacco Trial Verdict Against RJR

Posted by Arlin Crisco on Dec 7, 2023 1:26:55 PM

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Woburn, MA— Jurors last week issued a $20.7 million verdict against R.J. Reynolds for the mouth cancer a Massachusetts man developed after decades of smoking. Reppucci v. R.J. Reynolds, et al., 2081CV02095.

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Topics: Products Liability, tobacco, Massachusetts, Reppucci v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., et al.