Lawsuits & Judgments

For those of you without Children in the house, let me introduce you Hannah Montana. She is a fictional pop star and the title character of a Disney Channel original sitcom of the same name. If you do have children in the house than you know that Hannah Montana is also an incredibly popular show, […]

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The Arkansas attorney general is preparing to file what could be a $600 million lawsuit against three pharmaceutical manufacturers. The case which will likely be filed in the Pulaski County Circuit Court within the month will name the Eli Lilly & Co., Janssen Pharmaceutica and Astra Zeneca. as defendants. At issue in the […]

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Wyeth is once again trying to defend itself in a civil case over its menopause treatments. A lawsuit was filed in the Washoe District Court In Reno Nevada byt the firm of Littlepage Booth on behalf of three Nevada women. Each of the women developed breast cancer after taking the Wyeth hormone replacement […]

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In an apparent first, a city and state have filed a joint Medicaid class action lawsuit. In this instance, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, have announced that they are filed a joint class action against Merck to recover the money that the state and city agencies pad […]

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Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers of Omaha, has filed a lawsuit against God in the Douglas County District Court. And if you think this is a simple play on words, its not. The State Senator is actually trying to sue God, yes, the God The Almighty, He is Who is, The Creator…
State Senator Chambers […]

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On September 14th the Minnesota law firm of Charles H Johnson and Associates announced a the filing of a class action lawsuit against the soda pop maker Jones Soda Company. As you would expect, the suit alleges that false or misleading statements from the company artificially increased the company’s stock price and […]

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The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union has filed a class action lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Division in Amarillo Texas. The complaint stems form a series of “workplace enforcement raids” the unit conducted at six Swift and Company meat packing plants in Texas […]

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Last week we reported that the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) was itself the victim of a lawsuit. With another setback this week, it would seem that the legal problems are beginning to mount for the industry group known for its generic lawsuits against alleged music downloaders. Yesterday, according to an article on […]

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On Sept. 6, the Supreme Court of New Jersey reversed the rulings of two lower courts and withdrew the class action status of HMOs and Insurance Companies who had been suing Merck over VIOXX. The case, the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 68 Welfare Fund v. Merck was filed by the union health […]

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That is 63 followed eighteen (18) zeros and that is an awful lot of money. We are not sure that anyone is actually going to take this seriously. After all, the prison inmate who filed the suit has a history of filing absurd lawsuits and the suit alleges that Mr Vick stole the plaintiffs pit […]

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