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Lone Pine Issue Moving to State Supreme Court

By Sean Wajert on April 28, 2014
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Medical Monitoring, Toxic Tort

Readers know we have posted before about the important case management tool known as the “Lone PIne” order. These “Lone Pine” or…
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State Supreme Court Reaffirms Death of Single Fiber Theory

By Sean Wajert on October 3, 2013
Posted in Articles

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently reaffirmed several important principles in toxic tort exposure, specifically asbestos, cases. See Howard, et a…
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Lone Pine Issue Appealed to State Supreme Court

By Sean Wajert on September 4, 2013
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Medical Monitoring, Toxic Tort

Defendants in a fracking toxic tort case last week petitioned the Colorado Supreme Court to overrule an appeals court decision which had struck down a…
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Failure of General Causation Proof Leads to Summary Judgment in Chemical Case

By Sean Wajert on July 18, 2013
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

The Ohio appeals court ruled recently that a plaintiff could not pursue her chemical exposure toxic tort suit since her sole general causation expert’…
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ACI Chemical Products Liability Seminar

By Sean Wajert on March 22, 2013
Posted in Articles, Chemical

My new firm (Shook Hardy & Bacon) is co-sponsoring the 4th Annual ACI’s Chemical Products Liability and Environmental Litigation conference.
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State Supreme Court Applies Lessons of Dukes to Toxic Tort Class Action

By Sean Wajert on December 14, 2011
Posted in Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

Louisiana’s Supreme Court last week reversed the certification of a class action brought by property owners over the alleged release of contaminants f…
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Amicus Urges Supreme Court to Reverse Causation Junk Science Decision

By Sean Wajert on October 20, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

DRI (the Defense Research Institute) last week submitted an amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to review a federal appeals court decision that thre…
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Dismissal of Bellwether Case in FEMA MDL Upheld

By Sean Wajert on July 6, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Consumer Products, Toxic Tort

The plaintiff who at one time had been the first-in-line bellwether plaintiff in the FEMA Trailer MDL has lost her appeal of the dismissal of her clai…
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Appeals Court Upholds Summary Judgment Based on Daubert in Benzene Case

By Sean Wajert on May 25, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Toxic Tort

The Sixth Circuit last week upheld the dismissal of a plaintiff”s claim that benzene exposure caused her cancer. Pluck v. BP Oil Pipeline Co., No. 09…
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Court of Appeals Vacates Class Certification in Toxic Tort Case

By Sean Wajert on April 14, 2011
Posted in Articles, Chemical, Class Action, Toxic Tort

The Fifth Circuit has vacated the decision of the trial court in granting class status to a group of plaintiffs alleging that a refinery exposed them …
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