March 14, 2005

Two statutory interpretation cases argued at the high court in January, and covered by Legal Times' Tony Mauro at the time, are likely to have a major impact on the business litigation landscape: one of them concerns the extent to which federal regulation of pesticide labeling pre-empts claims of inadequate labeling brought under state product liability law, and the other will determine whether securities plaintiffs need to prove that company misstatements actually caused their losses before they can collect on them.