Plaintiffs’ Attorneys See Media As Co-counsel in Mass Tort Litigation
Plaintiffs’ attorneys like to give impassioned courthouse-steps speeches about the importance of fair trials and the sanctity of the judicial
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Judge Issues Sound Ruling in LTL Bankruptcy Case
On February 25, 2022, Chief Judge Michael Kaplan, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the District of New Jersey, denied claimants’ motions to dismiss
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New Jersey Appellate Court Rejects “Junk Science” in Talc Case
On April 28, 2021, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, found that a trial court improperly admitted expert
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SCOTUS Asked to Review Landmark Missouri Talc Verdict
This week, Johnson & Johnson requested the U.S. Supreme Court review a landmark talcum powder case which resulted in the
Judicial HellholesNational Plaintiffs Radio
Not everyone at NPR is zealously anti-business. And not all their reporting about lawsuits targeting American businesses necessarily takes the side, implicitly or explicitly, of plaintiffs’ lawyers and their clients. But most of the public radio network’s legal reporting does, and two stories airing on the same day last week showed enough bias-by-omission to leave listeners wondering if NPR has come to stand for National Plaintiffs Radio
UncategorizedATRA Letter in Post-Dispatch Pushes Back against Lying Lawyer
In attacking ATRA’s annually well-documented “Judicial Hellholes” report, which recently ranked St. Louis as the nation’s least fair civil court jurisdiction and criticized what we believe are scientifically groundless verdicts against makers of talcum powder, local personal injury lawyer Roger Denton claimed to have no involvement in litigation against one of those makers. But documents ATRA provided to the Post-Dispatch caught him in a lie
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