Updating our Jun. 22 item: Madison County, Ill. Circuit Judge Andy Matoesian has dismissed without prejudice a racketeering suit brought by class action lawyers against outside class members and lawyers who’d raised objections to the alleged inadequacy of a settlement. Attorneys Stephen Swedlow and Stephen Tillery, who’d reached a $63.8 million settlement with GlaxoSmithKline over its marketing of the drug Paxil, claimed the objections of lawyers N. Albert Bacharach, Jr. and Paul S. Rothstein and citizen Lillian Rogers were frivolous and extortionate. (Steve Gonzalez, “Matoesian dismisses suit against Paxil objectors”, Madison St. Clair Record, Sept. 7).
Update: Object to a class action settlement, face a RICO suit
Updating our Jun. 22 item: Madison County, Ill. Circuit Judge Andy Matoesian has dismissed without prejudice a racketeering suit brought by class action lawyers against outside class members and lawyers who’d raised objections to the alleged inadequacy of a settlement. Attorneys Stephen Swedlow and Stephen Tillery, who’d reached a $63.8 million settlement with GlaxoSmithKline over […]
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This Wondermark entry seems particularly apt, although it could apply to at least one entry a day on this blog.