Texas, N.J. courts scrap Vioxx verdicts

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Source: Associated Press

Maker of once-popular painkiller wins two appeals worth $26M and $9M

updated 12:16 p.m. ET, Thurs., May. 29, 2008
NEWARK, N.J. - Appeals courts in New Jersey and Texas on Thursday scrapped verdicts against the drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. stemming from some of the earliest trials involving its once popular painkiller Vioxx.

A Texas court reversed a $26 million verdict against the drug company stemming from the first trial. The court found no evidence that Robert Ernst suffered a fatal heart problem from a blood clot triggered by Vioxx. He had been taking the now-withdrawn drug for eight months before being stricken in May 2001.

His widow had won a $253 million verdict against New Jersey-based Merck in 2005, but Texas punitive damage caps later cut that to about $26 million.

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“It’s a sad day that they can write a 10-page opinion and wipe out a widow’s verdict with a new judicial activism that reinterprets the evidence to support corporate executives,” Lanier said.

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Well...we can thank the Federalist society for thoroughly infiltrating OUR Courts for 'Corporate Rule'.

[robinlynne]

1. You are so right, and remember our Dems saying "He's not that bad, we're not going to get

anyone better than this from Bush". and worse.

[tanyev]

2. "a new judicial activism"

Exactly! The right wingers scream loud and long about judicial activism, but they have no problem with it if it favors them.