U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
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Trap, trash and trick: How lawyers win with 'junk' science
WASHINGTON – Despite a recent scolding by more than 100 Nobel laureates for its science-denying campaign against perfectly healthful and environmentally beneficial genetically modified foods, Greenpeace and others with a financial interest in misleading the public are no more likely to change their ways than are the personal injury lawyers now using their own junk science to manipulate St. Louis juries and drive multimillion-dollar verdicts with groundless allegations that talcum powde -
McGraw among AGs filing brief in Ark. class action case
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – Eighteen state attorneys general, including West Virginia's Darrell McGraw, are worried that plaintiffs attorneys are skirting the rules of the Class Action Fairness Act to curtail the rights of their states’ citizens. -
GOP alleges quid pro quo between Justice Dept. and St. Paul
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Drug stores appeal Minn. class action ruling
Glasser MINNEAPOLIS – Several drug stores sued in Minnesota by a West Virginia law firm are appealing a ruling that says the class action lawsuit should be heard in a state court. -
Drug stores: No excuse for delay in class action
MINNEAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - A group of drug stores is objecting to a federal magistrate judge's recommendation that a class action lawsuit filed against it by a West Virginia firm should be heard in state court. -
Harsh words from defense in Minn. drug-pricing case
Brian Glasser MINNEAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - Attorneys for a group of prescription drug retailers say the actions of plaintiffs attorneys suing them should not be tolerated and that their ignorance of federal class action rules is no excuse for their behavior. -
Magistrate to rule on W.Va. firm's remand motion in drug-pricing case
Brian Glasser MINNEAPOLIS -- A federal magistrate judge must decide if a West Virginia law firm's request to remand a drug-pricing case to Minnesota state court was done within a "reasonable" time frame. -
Drug pricing case in need of new judge
Glasser MINNEAPOLIS -– Because of a retirement and a recusal, a lawsuit brought by a West Virginia law firm over generic drug pricing is now a case without a judge. -
Drug-pricing suit sent back to skeptical judge
ST. LOUIS (Legal Newsline) –- A federal appeals court has remanded a lawsuit over generic drug-pricing to a federal judge who once called the allegations made in it "laughable."
