by Vickery & Shepherd | Jul 14, 2015 | Justiceseekers, lawsuits, Product Liability, Uncategorized
On July 13, 2015, US District Judge Tena Campbell in Salt Lake City, Utah issued an opinion soundly rejecting Forest Laboratories’ motions challenging the scientific propriety of our expert opinion evidence that Lexapro caused Kurt Shipley to take his own life, and...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Jun 2, 2015 | Justiceseekers
The Seventh Amendment right to jury trial is vanishing, right before our eyes. Make no mistake about it. Vanishing! And, tragically, the fault for this fecklessness with the Founders lies on the doorstep of the very people who were empowered by Article III with life...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Apr 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
A federally deputized corporal from the Houston Police Department decides to pay YOUR small company’s driver to drive YOUR truck to the Mexican border, load it up with illegal drugs, and try to catch some bad guys. He knows that the driver is lying to “the owner” –...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Feb 18, 2014 | Captain's Corner, Trial Lawyers
Well, if this one don’t take the cake. First, a big defense firm has the chutzpah to send a young associate into the federal jury assembly room, and then, has the unmitigated gall to refuse to produce his/her notes, claiming them as “work product.” See the story,...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Feb 12, 2014 | Captain's Corner, Justiceseekers
The judicial committee has proposed an amendment to Rule 26, Fed.R.Civ.P. If passed, the scope of discovery will no longer be information that is relevant, or likely to lead to relevant evidence. Instead, there will be a new barometer. The judge can weigh in and...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Jan 22, 2014 | Captain's Corner, Drug Injury, lawsuits, Product Liability, Uncategorized
On January 21, 2014, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court made it clear that pharmaceutical companies who are negligent in their design or marketing of drug products will be held accountable under the law. The drug company in Lance v. Wyeth argued that the only two bases...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Jan 14, 2014 | Captain's Corner, Justiceseekers, Uncategorized
Looking for a unique and exciting team building experience? We found one! Four of the six Justiceseekers team members participated in the Mighty Mud Dash mud run in November. Talk about an exciting, cold, rewarding experience. “The wind was biting cold and, despite...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Oct 29, 2013 | Justiceseekers, lawsuits, News
Drug enforcement agents used private citizens property without his knowledge and consent Houston, TX – Today, Texas resident Craig Patty filed suit against the United States Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the head of the Houston DEA office, Javier Peña, Harris County,...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Sep 27, 2013 | Captain's Corner, Humira, Product Liability
Today was a sad one for justice in the case of Maureen Calisi. In a 34 page opinion, US District Judge Denise Casper ruled that the testimony of our “warnings” expert, Dr. Michael Hamrell, should be excluded, and that, without it, there was no case to submit to a...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Sep 25, 2013 | Captain's Corner, Justiceseekers, Trial Lawyers, Uncategorized
When my 2002 Trial Lawyers’ College roommate David Terry announced that he would rather be a creative painter instead of a trial lawyer, I jumped on the chance to give him his first commission. There were only three conditions that I imposed. It would be a...
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