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Settlement
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Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Nagareda on Mass Torts in a World of Settlement
By joetort
Richard Nagareda's book Mass Torts in a World of Settlement was just published by University of Chicago Press. It's worth reading. I had the pleasure of reading an earlier draft,…
TortsProf Blog
“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘illegal’ is”
Just to tie up a loose thread from yesterday's news about David Egilman settling with Lilly...In Pharmalot's first story breaking the news, this comment was reported:However, Egilman’s attorney, Alex Reinert…
Mass Tort Litigation Blog
Rhode Island Nightclub Fire Litigation: Possible Settlement
By joetort
There's a possible aggregate settlement in the works regarding the 2003 nightclub fire in West Warwick, Rhode Island. Here's an excerpt from today's AP story on nytimes.com:Several defendants being sued…
The Contingency
Hydraulic Pressure to Settle Class Actions
From the July-August 2007 issue of Barnett's Notes on Commercial Litigation: Just after the dawn of the 20th century, a dissenting Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., famously said that "great…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
What’s Included in the Settlement?
By Ellen Podgor
The LATimes reports on a court decision that finds that the University of Phoenix may still be subject to a lawsuit despite a prior "$9.8-million settlement it made with the…
New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
An In-Court Settlement will be Binding
Settlements and the method by which they are reached are often very important in legal malpractice. Usually, the issue is whether the settlement truely reflects what plaintiff bargained for, or…
Media Law Prof Blog
Imus, CBS Settle Over Dismissal
Just as Don Imus and CBS settled his lawsuit over CBS' dismissal of him back in April over his incautious remarks regarding the Rutgers' women's basketball team, one of the…
Legal Profession Blog
Buyer’s Remorse
A plaintiff in a discrimination claim acknowledged and accepted the terms of a settlement in open court. Problems arose thereafter--"the legal equivalent of buyer's remorse"--when the terms were being reduced…
North Carolina Product Liability Blog
Causation Queries & Pre-complaint Negotiation
By Law Office of D. Hardison Wood
We recently settled a case involving a product defect with a peculiar mechanism of injury. I say peculiar because until our case, the defendant manufacturer purportedly had never received a…
TortsProf Blog
Fairness of Malpractice Settlements
Philip G. Peters, Jr. (UMKC) has a new paper (in Regulation and on SSRN) relating to medical malpractice settlements. Its abstract: Over the past quarter of a century, more than…