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BP spill cleanup workers’ suit

Walter Olson — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:58:20 +0000

There’s already a class action demanding medical monitoring. [Dionne Searcey, WSJ Law Blog]

Tags: BP Transocean oil spill, medical monitoring

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Latest issue of Class Action Watch

Ted Frank — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:43:57 +0000

The latest issue of the Federalist Society’s Class Action Watch has many articles of interest to Overlawyered readers:

William E. Thomson & Kahn A. Scolnick on the Exxon Shipping case;
Jimmy Cline on Arkansas’s disregard for class action certification standards;
Jim Copland on the “Colossus” class action;
Laurel Harbour on the New Jersey Supreme Court decision on medical monitoring class actions;
Lyle Roberts on lead-counsel selection in securities class actions;
Mark A. Behrens & Frank Cruz-Alvarez on the lead paint public nuisance decision by the Rhode Island Supreme Court; and
Andrew Grossman, extensively citing to Overlawyered and my brief in discussing the Grand Theft Auto class action settlement rejection.

Tags: Arkansas, class action settlements, class actions, Exxon Shipping v. Baker, Federalist Society, forum shopping, Grand Theft Auto, lead paint, medical monitoring, New Jersey, punitive damages, Rhode Island, Ted Frank

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Breaking: New Jersey Supreme Court rejects Vioxx medical monitoring class action

Ted Frank — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:23:01 +0000

Mark Herrmann has details of Sinclair v. Merck. The decision also suggests that the New Jersey Supreme Court is going to affirm the intermediate McDarby decision rejecting the use of consumer-fraud law for product-liability claims in New Jersey.

Tags: class actions, medical monitoring, New Jersey, pharmaceuticals, Vioxx

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