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Winter 2012 Co-author, Factors For and Against MDL Coordination, ABA Mass Torts Litigation, Vol. 10, No.2

Outside Publication | Article
John Lavelle, Jr., Thomas Ayala

January/February 2012 Selecting Arbitrators in Construction & Surety Cases, National Association of Surety Bond Producers Pipeline e-newsletter

Outside Publication | Article
Michael Libor

05/31/11 U.S. Supreme Court Establishes State-of-Mind Requirement for Inducing Infringement Liability

LawFlash/Client Alert | Intellectual Property LawFlash
R. (Ted) Cruz

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Global-Tech Appliances, Inc., et al. v. SEB S.A. , No. 10-6 (2011), holding that to prove inducing infringement under 35 U.S.C. § 271(b) a plaintiff must prove that the ... more

10/30/09 Massachusetts Supreme Court Expands Toxic Tort Liability; Rejects Single Controversy Rule

LawFlash/Client Alert | Litigation LawFlash
Litigation Practice

On October 19, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) expanded toxic tort liability to encompass medical monitoring claims while at the same time rejecting application of the "single controversy" rule in such cases. Don... more

06/19/09 Pennsylvania Supreme Court Dismisses Appeal in Bugosh, Postpones Addressing Whether to Adopt Restatement (Third) of Torts Standard

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John Lavelle, Jr.

Those who had awaited the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's ruling in Bugosh v. I.U. North America Inc ., No. 7 WAP 2008, to answer whether the court would adopt Section 2 of the Restatement (Third) of Torts in place of Section 402A... more

04/24/09 Third Circuit Court of Appeals Predicts That Pennsylvania Supreme Court Will Effectively Eliminate Strict Liability in Defective Design and Inadequate Warning Cases

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John Lavelle, Jr.

As the tort bar waits for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s ruling in Bugosh v. I.U. North America Inc. to answer the court’s question of whether it should apply Section 2 of the Restatement (Third) of Torts in p... more

11/03/08 The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008: Deputizing State Attorneys General and Plaintiffs’ Lawyers

LawFlash/Client Alert | Litigation LawFlash
Kathleen Sanzo, Joan Haratani

On August 14, President Bush signed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (the Act), imposing more stringent standards for consumer product safety. The Act specifically addresses children’s products that may... more

07/25/08 Texas Courts Embrace the National Trend on Household Asbestos Exposure (co-author), Legal Backgrounder (published by the Washington Legal Foundation), Vol. 23, No. 32

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Joy Palazzo

2003 Recent Developments in Pharmaceutical Products Liability Law: Failure to Warn, the Learned Intermediary Defense, and Other Issues in the New Millennium, The Food and Drug Law Journal, Vol. 58, No. 2

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Bernard Garbutt III

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