The prosecution rested its case in People v. Michiel Oakes, and the defense presented its opening statement.
A child care center should not have been operated in an abandoned thermometer factory filled with hazardous waste, according to the plaintiff in Mignano v. Jim Sullivan. Almost one hundred children may have been exposed to highly toxic mercury vapors during the two years that the child care center operated.
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Topics: Toxic Torts, Mignano v. Jim Sullivan, Mass Torts
In Air Products v. Airgas, Wachtell Lipton's Ted Mirvis urged the Delaware Chancery Court to declare invalid the Airgas by-law calling for a January shareholders meeting. Mirvis argued that two meetings four months apart could not actually both be "annual meetings." "Annual" means a year apart, not just in different calendar years.
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Tobacco extended its Engle-progeny winning streak to three-in-a-row (Budnick, Warrick, and Willis) with a defense verdict today in Willis v. R.J. Reynolds.
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Topics: Toxic Torts, Products Liability, Willis v. Reynolds, Engle Progeny, Tobacco Litigation
Plaintiff attorney Bruce Denson told the jury in Rohr v. R.J. Reynolds that Arthur Rohr smoked a pack a day for 50 years, adding, "No one smokes for 50 years who isn't to some degree addicted."
All the records agreed, said Mr. Denson, that Mr. Rohr died of metastatic lung cancer, which is caused by smoking. Although Mr. Rohr had a small skin cancer, the medical records indicated that the skin cancer apparently had not spread.
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Topics: Toxic Torts, Products Liability, Engle Progeny, Rohr v. Reynolds, Tobacco Litigation
