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  • Recent cases of note.

    November 25, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
  • Some baby boomers have come of age on the wrong side of the law, and the older prison population is burgeoning. Fortunately, Booker and its progeny have superseded the Sentencing Guidelines' strict limitations on leniency based on age and health.

    November 25, 2008Evan A. Jenness
  • In the past few years, attorneys and commentators had sought to establish the selective-waiver doctrine by proposing changes to the Federal Rules of Evidence. This in-depth analysis explains why.

    November 25, 2008Jonathan S. Feld and Blake Mills
  • Recent rulings of interest to you and your practice.

    November 24, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
  • Who's doing what; who's going where.

    November 24, 2008ALM Staff | Law Journal Newsletters |
  • Allegations of punitive damages can cast a heavy shadow on any litigation, and defendants in product liabilty cases are no strangers to tremendous punitive awards. That said, it is not difficult to understand why most defendants, at least early on, do not want to think about the potential for ' or size of ' a punitive damages award. Here's why.

    November 24, 2008Michelle Hart Yeary
  • Three recent district court decisions ' from Minnesota, California and Florida ' have created a division in the federal courts on whether product liability claims against generic pharmaceutical manufacturers are preempted by federal law. An in-depth discussion.

    November 24, 2008Alan Klein, Sharon L. Caffrey and Karen Shichman Crawford
  • Part One of this article discussed the basics of multidistrict litigation. The conclusion herein describes the Judicial panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML).

    November 24, 2008Kimberly H. Clancy