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U.S. Supreme Court Imposes Limits On Class Actions
Posted on 28 Apr 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) The Supreme Court on Wednesday limited the ability of people to combine forces and fight corporations together when they want to dispute contracts for cell phones, cable television and other services, a move consumer advocates... Read More

Tags: Supreme Court , AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion , AT&T , Public Citizen , California , Concepcion , Senate Judiciary Committee , Deepak Gupta , Litigation , class actions , lawsuit , Leahy

Lawsuit Seeks To Curb Animal Feed Antibiotic Use
Posted on 26 May 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

NEW YORK - (AP) A "growing and dangerous" trend of antibiotic resistance among humans that has been traced in part to the overuse of antibiotics in animal feed led several health and consumer organizations to sue the U.S. government Wednesday... Read More

Tags: penicillin , National Academy of Sciences , Cook County (Ill.) Hospital , animal feed , Union of Concerned Scientists , Food and Drug Administration , Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics , Public Citizen , Natural Resources Defense Council , Center for Science in the Public Interest , FDA , Food Animal Concerns Trust , Litigation , livestock , lawsuit , antibiotic , Institute of Medicine , antibiotic-resistant bacteria , tetracycline , infections

Study Finds Only 1 In 5 Medical Malpractice Cases Lead To Settlement, Payout
Posted on 19 Aug 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

ATLANTA - (AP) Only 1 in 5 malpractice claims against doctors leads to a settlement or other payout, according to the most comprehensive study of these claims in two decades. But while doctors and their insurers may be winning most of these challenges... Read More

Tags: RAND Institute for Civil Justice , malpractice , Harvard Kennedy School of Government , Public Citizen , New England Journal of Medicine , medical malpractice , Litigation , lawsuit , National Institute on Aging , Settlement , Public Citizen's Health Research Group

Watchdog Group Makes 2nd Push To Ban Diet Pill
Posted on 15 Apr 2011 by LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C. - (AP) For the second time in five years, public health advocates are calling on the Food and Drug Administration to ban a fat-blocking drug sold over-the counter and via prescription, pointing to new reports of kidney stones and pancreatic... Read More

Tags: Pondimin , Wyeth , obesity , Food and Drug Administration , Darvon , Public Citizen , Alli , diet drugs , diet pill , Meridia , FDA , Orlistat , fen-phen , fenfluramine , Redux , Litigation , GlaxoSmithKline , Roche , Xenical