- No damages payout, just governance reforms in Schering-Plough shareholder suit, but lawyers to get $9.5 million anyway [NJLJ/Ted at Overlawyered]
- Getting the Supreme Court's message? Punitive damages not running away so much lately [Fisk/Bloomberg]
- Framing of trials as underdog vs. big dog often crucial [Reed]
- Some credit affidavit of merit, same-expert-specialty rule with stabilizing Arizona's med-mal climate [Denogean/Tucson Citizen]
- Individual issues predominate: a judge decertifies a big Lakin Law Firm class action against Ford over flaking paint [MC Record]
- Sordid tales involving superstars-of-suing Lerach and Scruggs "are legal-sector equivalent of Buffett heading to jail and Bill Gates being indicted on felony charges." [Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial/ TradingMarkets.com] For regular updates on the Scruggs affair, check the Overlawyered scandals page.
Around the web, January 21
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Rafael Mangual Project Manager, Legal Policy rmangual@manhattan-institute.org |
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