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Supreme Court Revisits Money LaunderingBusiness Crimes BulletinOn March 3, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in the case of Cuellar v. United States. The decision, expected by the end of June, will interpret the “intent to conceal” provision of the federal Anti-Money Laundering statutes.
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‘No-Injury’ Consumer Class Actions: A Growing Practice By Plaintiffs and a Potential Response By DefendantsPlaintiffs’ counsel recently have been changing their tactics in product liability class action litigation. In place of filing traditional injury class actions, they instead have been filing more and more economic “no-injury” class actions, in which the proposed class members seek to recover not for personal injury, but for their alleged economic losses in purchasing a product that is worth “less” than they paid for it because of some alleged defect.
Practice Tip: The Physician Labeling RuleArguments over interpretation of the Physician Labeling Rule language may well be making an appearance in future product liability cases.
Inadvertent Disclosures: CA Supreme Court Establishes Duties of Attorneys, But Issues RemainIn Rico v. Mitsubishi Motors Corp., the California Supreme Court adopted the “fair and reasonable approach” originally formulated by the Second District Court of Appeal in State Compensation Ins. Fund v. WPS, Inc., and set forth the duties of attorneys upon receiving inadvertent disclosures.
Criminalizing Product Liability Claims? An Idea from Across the PondThe Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act of 2007 is yet another example of a worldwide trend toward criminalizing the law of product liability. While the idea of establishing criminal corporate manslaughter has been discussed in the United States, it has not gained much momentum. The recent reform in the United Kingdom, however, may rekindle the efforts to criminalize product liability, especially during the course of this election year.
Coordination of Mass Torts in State CourtWith the number of mass/complex cases in state courts on the rise, state court litigants and jurists are recognizing the need to treat these cases differently from garden variety torts and are turning to established, but heretofore little used, state law coordination rules and procedures to manage this growing area of litigation.
Case NotesHighlights of the latest product liability cases from around the country.
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