Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals News

"Plaintiff's failure-to-warn claims against the manufacturers of metoclopramide, the generic version of Reglan, [are] not preempted by federal law": The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit today issued a ruling that the court's web site summarizes as follows: Plaintiff's failure-to-warn claims against the manufacturers of metoclopramide, ...

Attorney Advertising. Keller Rohrback L.L.P. today announced that on November 25, 2009, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed and remanded a decision by the district court for the Western District of Missouri that had dismissed, in October of 2008, Plaintiff Jeremy Braden's ERISA class action lawsuit filed on behalf of a class of ...

A man sentenced to death for killing Dru Sjodin is asking for a new hearing in front of a federal appeals court.

A man sentenced to death for the killing of a University of North Dakota student is asking for a new hearing in front of a federal appeals court.

Mayor Dennis Walaker officially declared Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, a oePresident Joseph Chapman Daya in the city of Fargo.

Percy Green, II v. City of St. Louis, et. al., No. 06-3349 Holding that a plaintiff failed to make a prima facie case on his claim that the City of St.

Pamela Jodway joined the Lansing Economic Area Partnership as vice president of marketing.

The eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Tuesday that embattled Philadelphia Eagles quarterback can keep the $29.5 million in bonus money he earned with the Atlanta Falcons prior to his suspension.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit challenging the training and competence of Missouri's execution team in a decision likely to move the state closer to resuming executions.

A federal district court judge has dismissed a defamation claim against the Pottawattamie County attorney.

A federal appeals court has refused to dismiss a civil lawsuit against two West Memphis police officers who were involved in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy.

A group of Missouri death row inmates on Tuesday lost an appeal that had temporarily halted executions in the state.Though the ruling by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals moves the state closer to once again scheduling executions, it could be several more months before the ruling is considered final.The three-judge appeals court panel on ...

James Norman's lawsuit alleged prison officials should have protected him from a September 2005 assault that left him with a cut above the eye, a broken nose, abrasions and a concussion.

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals will get a new trial to determine if the drugmaker should pay punitive damages to a woman who got breast cancer after taking hormone replacement therapy, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit has upheld Arkansas district court decisions in a products liability case against pharmaceutical companies that are the makers of hormone therapy drugs that, combined, have been linked to breast cancer.

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals will get a new trial to determine if the drugmaker should pay punitive damages to a woman who got breast cancer after taking hormone replacement therapy, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

Federal Magistrate Susan Richard Nelson will be nominated for the vacant federal judgeship from Minnesota, I'm reliably informed.

A federal appeals court says drugmaker Wyeth Pharmaceuticals will get a new trial to determine if the company should pay punitive damages for continuing to make and sell an estrogen-replacement drug after scientific studies had linked it to breast cancer.

The new issue of the Weekly Standard carries my article "The flying imams win." In the article I take a brief look back at Judge Montgomery's July decision denying official immunity to the law enforcement officers who detained and questioned the flying imams at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

In her majority opinion, Judge Diana Murphy treats as a factual finding the district court's determination that the statement that an abortion "will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique living human being" is a value judgment, rather than a medical fact, and she relies on a declaration submitted by one of the plaintiffs to provide ...