Kirk T. Hartley 4 days ago 1 min Due Process in a Trial About 22 Ovarian Cancers - J&J's Cert Petition for Ingham Talc Verdict As it said it would do, J&J filed a cert petition seeking review of the Ingham verdict against it and others. The verdict involved 22 ova...
Kirk T. Hartley 4 days ago 1 min Cogent Summary - Workshop on Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence v4.0 Last week's workshop on the path to update the federal Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence is summarized in a cogent and insightful b...
Kirk T. Hartley Feb 25 2 min France - Asbestos Exposure Prosecutions Against Former Managers of an Asbestos-Cement Manufacturer Issues arising from criminal prosecutions of former managers at an asbestos-cement plant (Everite) are up on appeal, as described in a Fe...
Kirk T. Hartley Feb 22 1 min This Week - Planning Underway for Fourth Edition of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence Planning continues this week for the Fourth Edition of the federal Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence. The event is an open access ...
Kirk T. Hartley Feb 10 1 min Symposium - Economics and Law of Civil Remedies: Developments in Damages and Nationwide Injunctions The George Mason Law and Economics Center is hosting a free, upcoming online symposium titled: Symposium on the Economics and Law of Civi...
Kirk T. Hartley Feb 10 1 min Academic Work On the Stock Price Impact of Product Recalls An academic research project on the stock price impact of product recalls is described in a February 1, 2021 blog post from Christopher M...
Kirk T. Hartley Feb 9 1 min Compilation of Reviews of Books on Tort Law: 2015-2020 Now available at SSRN is a compilation of reviews of books on tort law, as per a February 7, 2021 post by Steve Hedley at Private Law Blo...
Kirk T. Hartley Feb 5 2 min Strategic Defamation Suit by Another Voting Machine Company - Smartmatic v. Fox, Giuliani, et al As if to highlight my point about strategic lawsuits taking on more importance, this week ended with another voting machine company filin...
Kirk T. Hartley Feb 4 1 min Stark Data - World Cancer Day For World Cancer Day, it seems the right time to highlight some of the stark data on expected future cancers around the globe. Regardless...
Kirk T. Hartley Feb 3 1 min "The Justice Department is Prosecuting an American for Election Interference—in 2016" A newly announced criminal action by DOJ further highlights the use of strategic litigation to knock down people who spread misinformatio...
Kirk T. Hartley Feb 2 1 min Defamation Payment to the Duke of Sussex (Prince Harry), and Open Court Statement As noted on Monday, it seems there are more and more strategic defamation suits against media in the US. Perhaps the trend includes the U...
Kirk T. Hartley Feb 1 1 min Michael Conklin, ‘Rage Against the Voting Machine: Dominion’s Defamation Lawsuit Against ...." It seems 2021 is going to be quite the year for strategic, defamation lawsuits against proven liars. The articles by lawyers are flowing....
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 29 2 min Seeing Tort Claiming Data is Useful - NFL Concussion Claims > $800m of Claim Payments Approved After so many years of relative secrecy about claiming in asbestos litigation and some other "mass torts," it's refreshing to see fairly ...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 28 1 min ""Huh?" Insider Trading: The Chris Collins Story" What does research on sociology and criminology tell us about why white collar criminals do what they do? In a January 27, 2021 post, Pr...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 27 1 min Present Consequences: Carolina Asbestos Company - Davidson, North Carolina Some "toxins" are long-lived, and so decisions made decades ago continue to ripple through current events. A "now in the news" example is...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 26 2 min Multistep Transactions Lead to $4+ Billion Intercompany Deal to Pay for Underlying PFAS Claims Just before the weekend, DuPont, Corteva and Chemours issued a joint press release announcing a $4 billion deal to resolve their respecti...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 24 1 min The Open Access "Botometer" Assesses Twitter Accounts for "Botness" The "botometer" is an online, open access source for assessing whether a twitter account likely is run by a bot. https://botometer.osome...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 22 1 min Mass Tort Estimation Orders: The Bestwall Example for Mesotheliomas A newly entered order in the Bestwall/Georgia Pacific chapter 11 case provides a ruling on some aspects of an estimation process to value...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 20 1 min NRA's Chapter 11 - Possible Implications for Mass Torts, Public Policy and Chapter 11 The NRA's chapter 11 filing last week has possible implications for mass torts, public policy and chapter 11 law. Why? Because the NRA is...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 20 2 min Gene Mutations are Not Fungible: "How Mutations in a Specific Gene Cause Different Types of Disease" For persons interested in cancer litigation and genetic causes of cancers, a key point to learn and apply is that gene mutations are not ...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 19 2 min Judge Rakoff: Directors Sometimes at Risk When Multistep M&A Transactions Lead to Insolvency These are interesting times with respect to corporate transactions related to alleged or actual fraudulent conveyances, whether arising t...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 13 1 min Best Typo Ever? Online Law Firm Advice in Year 0001? Hmmm - best typo ever? https://www.omm.com/resources/alerts-and-publications/publications/sec-issues-updated-guidance-on-rule-10b5-1-trad...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 11 1 min Trump Must Go Now, But Not Much Courage or Leadership in Big Law For the record, I'm calling for immediate removal of President Trump, via either the 25th Amendment or impeachment. With that on the reco...
Kirk T. Hartley Jan 8 1 min PACER Hacked: "Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach" More to think about from the SolarWinds hack. A January 7, 2021 blog post from a nationally known cybersecurity expert (Brian Krebs) pic...
