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Jury awards semiconductor manufacturer $40M in trade secrets case against rival

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A jury for the US District Court for the Northern District of California awarded Comet Technologies $40 million in damages on Wednesday, finding that a rival company had misappropriated trade secrets on equipment used in the manufacturing of semiconductor chips. Comet had sought compensatory damages of $32.5

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Federal appeals court affirms $25 million judgment in Bayer’s Roundup cancer case

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In 2019, the jury found that the manufacturer was negligent, and the design on Roundup lacked sufficient cancer warnings. The jury awarded Hardeman $75 million in punitive damages, but the federal judge overseeing the trial reduced the punitive damages to $20 million.

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FDA Safety Communications: A Potential Provider Pitfall

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25, 2022), [link] , considered whether a provider’s use of a medical device that is the subject of an FDA safety communication constitutes per se evidence of wanton disregard, which would warrant punitive damages. The Court’s analysis also leaves open the possibility that other FDA communications could result in punitive damages.

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October 2020 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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In its stay motion, the Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association (TTMA) argued that the court had already determined that its challenge to the EPA standards was likely to be successful and that the NHTSA standards could not function without the EPA standards. Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association, Inc. 16-1430 (D.C. N20C-09-097 (Del.

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