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...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Sep 17, 2013 | Drug Injury, Product Liability, Recalls
According to a Bloomberg article, Johnson & Johnson issued a recall last week of 5,000 vials of their schizophrenia drug Risperdal Consta. The recall was issued after, “routine analysis showed one lot of the injected drug was contaminated with alternaria...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Sep 11, 2013 | Captain's Corner, Trial Lawyers, Trial Lawyers College
My son-in-law Kiel Garella is now a certified graduate of Gerry Spence’s Trial Lawyers College. This means that he has the skills to LISTEN to his clients’ real truths, and to tell their STORIES in an effective, persuasive manner. It also attests to...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Sep 9, 2013 | Captain's Corner, Humira, Uncategorized
In this inaugural blog, we pose the question — “Do you want to cede your right to make informed decisions about your own health to a doctor who might be getting paid by the company whose drug he is prescribing to you?” I spent 7 years, 1 month and 22...
by Vickery & Shepherd | Aug 22, 2013 | Drug Injury, News
August 22, 2013 – Late yesterday, Cook County Illinois Judge William J. Haddad denied Abbott Laboratories’ and Abbvie, Inc.’s motion for a new trial and to set aside the verdict in the case of Tietz v. Abbott. This case, involving North Dakota woman Delores Tietz and...
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