Sentences with phrase «dismissed multiple defendants»

A recent appellate opinion discusses how one plaintiff's execution of an overly broad settlement agreement actually dismissed multiple defendants from the case, despite her lack of intention to do so.

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In plaintiff's suit alleging illness from eating contaminated oysters at defendant's restaurant, the Roanoke U.S. District Court denies plaintiff's motion to voluntarily dismiss his suit, as litigation has been ongoing for two years, there are multiple third - party complaints up the...

(1) extending negligent misrepresentation beyond «business transactions» to product liability, unprecedented in Texas; (2) ignoring multiple US Supreme Court decisions that express and implied preemption operate independently (as discussed here) to dismiss implied preemption with nothing more than a cite to the Medtronic v. Lohr express preemption decision; (3) inventing some sort of state - law tort to second - guess the defendant following one FDA marketing approach (§ 510k clearance) over another (pre-market approval), unprecedented anywhere; (4) holding that the learned intermediary rule does not apply whenever a defendant «compensates» or «incentivizes» physicians to use its products, absent any Texas state or appellate authority; (5) imposing strict liability on an entity not in the product's chain of sale, contrary to Texas statute (§ 82.001 (2)-RRB-; (6) creating a claim for «tortious interference» with the physician - patient relationship, again utterly unprecedented; (7) creating «vicarious» breach of fiduciary duty for engaging doctors to serve as expert witnesses in mass tort litigation also involving their patients, ditto; and (8) construing a consulting agreement with a physician as «commercial bribery» to avoid the Texas cap on punitive damages, jaw - droppingly unprecedented.

Do courts allow defendants to dismiss multiple traffic citations with one online traffic school course?