Huge Punitive Damages Award in Actos Bellwether Trial

Headlines • Huge Punitive Damages Award in Actos Bellwether Trial • Tax Proposal Harms Law Firms, ABA President Says • Judge: State's Painkiller Ban Appears 'Out of Line' • Reinstatement for Suit Seeking Access to Court Filings • The Fracas Over Fracking • PRO: High Court's Lifting of Campaign Finance Limits Sparks Sharp Divide • High Court Drama Steps on Stage In Play on Landmark Nudity Case • The False Assumption in the Hobby Lobby Case • D.C. Moves • Movers Huge Punitive Damages Award in Actos Bellwether Trial A jury in Louisiana has awarded more than $9 billion in the first federal bellwether trial over claims that taking Actos increases the risk of getting bladder cancer. Read More » Tax Proposal Harms Law Firms, ABA President Says American Bar Association President James Silkenat wants to convince members of Congress this week that the leading tax reform proposals on Capitol Hill would harm not only law firms and lawyers but also the businesses and other clients who hire them. Read More » Judge: State's Painkiller Ban Appears 'Out of Line' A Boston federal judge said Tuesday that pharmaceutical company Zogenix Inc. would likely win its bid to temporarily stop a Massachusetts state ban on its painkiller Zohydro, but postponed ruling until next week. Read More » Reinstatement for Suit Seeking Access to Court Filings Courthouse News Service should be able to pursue a lawsuit seeking access to civil complaints because it “presents an important First Amendment question” for the federal courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has ruled. Read More » The Fracas Over Fracking As energy companies push to expand extraction of oil and natural gas through hydraulic fracturing, we consider some of the legal angles in this special section. Read More » PRO: High Court's Lifting of Campaign Finance Limits Sparks Sharp Divide McCutcheon decision is a victory for freedom of speech. Read More » High Court Drama Steps on Stage In Play on Landmark Nudity Case Justices scooting around on their chairs like whirling dervishes. Advocates pushing their lecterns back and forth, one lawyer even orating and dancing — briefly — without benefit of clothing. That is how the play "Arguendo" holds its audience through the inevitably dull stretches of a high court argument. Read More » The False Assumption in the Hobby Lobby Case Error in the definition of an 'abortion-causing' drug belies the religious-freedom question. Read More » D.C. Moves Legal industry job changes in our nation's capital. Read More » Movers Erin Murphy joins Arnstein & Lehr's litigation practice group as special counsel to the Chicago office. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column. Read More »

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