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Federal judge who rejected $50M Vioxx award modifies order for new trial
June 6, 2007 by Michael Sung
US District Judge Eldon E. Fallon of the US Eastern District of Louisiana Tuesday modified his 2006 ruling that rejected a $51 million jury award against pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., offering the plaintiff $600,000 in compensatory damages and $1 million in punitive damages. The plaintiff....... [more]
Federal judge rejects national Vioxx class action
November 22, 2006 by Bernard Hibbitts
A federal judge in New Orleans Wednesday rejected a bid to have all federal lawsuits against Merck & Co. brought in connection with the withdrawn painkiller Vioxx consolidated in a single national class action against the company. US District Judge Eldon Fallon, who is responsible for co-.... [more]
Federal judge rejects $50 million Vioxx award as 'grossly excessive'
August 30, 2006 by Jaime Jansen
US District Judge Eldon E. Fallon of the Eastern District of Louisiana on Wednesday threw out a jury verdict holding Merck liable for $50 million in compensatory damages to a retired FBI agent who claimed Merck's painkiller Vioxx caused his heart attack. Fallon called the jury award....... [more]
Retrying Merck: The Once and Future Federal Vioxx Suits [op-ed]
February 6, 2006 by JURIST Staff
JURIST Guest Columnist Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law says Merck faces new legal difficulties as a retrial of the first federal Vioxx case begins... The retrial of the first federal Vioxx case begins Monday with jury selection. In December a jury deadlocked after.... [more]
BREAKING NEWS ~ Mistrial declared in first federal Vioxx case
December 12, 2005 by Bernard Hibbitts
AP is reporting that the judge in the first federal Vioxx case has declared a mistrial. The jury reported over the weekend that it was deadlocked, but US District Judge Eldon Fallon had urged them to resume their deliberations .10:28 AM ET- Judge Fallon has said he will meet with lawyers from.... [more]
Deadlocked Vioxx jury to resume deliberations
December 11, 2005 by Jaime Jansen
A deadlocked federal jury in a Texas Vioxx case will resume its deliberations Monday after informing US District Judge Eldon Fallon on Saturday that it could not reach a unanimous verdict about whether Merck & Co.’s Vioxx painkiller caused Richard Irvin’s heart attack and subsequent de....... [more]
Preparations for first federal Vioxx trial underway in Houston
September 29, 2005 by Greg Sampson
Trial preparations commenced Thursday in federal court in Houston for the first federal civil trial involving the Merck-manufactured Vioxx painkiller. Earlier this month, New Orleans-based US District Judge Eldon Fallon, charged with managing the hundreds of federal civil suits involving the.... [more]
First federal Vioxx trial moved from New Orleans to Houston
September 17, 2005 by Bernard Hibbitts
The New Orleans-based federal judge charged with co-ordinating the approximately 1800 pending federal lawsuits relating to the withdrawal of the painkiller Vioxx from pharmacists' shelves last year has ruled that the first federal trial against Vioxx-manufacturer Merck will take place in Houston....... [more]
Vioxx liability case advances to pre-trial hearings
March 18, 2005 by Phillip Hong-Barco
The US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana began pre-trial hearings Friday, launching the federal liability case against Merck & Co., producers of the painkilling product Vioxx. Dozens of lawyers, handling over one thousand lawsuits, entered the courtroom before Judge Eldon.... [more]
Vioxx pretrial proceedings assigned to Louisiana federal court
February 16, 2005 by Jeannie Shawl
The federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation Wednesday assigned all pending Vioxx product liability lawsuits to Judge Eldon Fallon of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans. Judge Fallon will coordinate discovery and other pretrial proceedings in.... [more]
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