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Author Prakash, Snigdha.

Title All the justice money can buy : corporate greed on trial / Snigdha Prakash.

Imprint New York : Kaplan Pub., c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  345.0242 P884a 2011    ---  Available
Description xvi, 319 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Discusses the trial against the Merck Corporation for their dangerous prescription drug, Vioxx, and examines the trial strategies of the plantiffs' lawyer, Mark Lanier, against one of the richest and most respected corporations in the nation.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
Contents The beginning -- Preparing for battle -- Opening statements : the plaintiffs -- Opening statements : Merck -- "The perfect goober!" -- A company gone bad? -- Digging the hole deeper -- Defender of the franchise -- The plaintiff's final witness -- Merck's defense -- Closing arguments -- The verdict.
Subject Trials (Products liability) -- United States.
Rofecoxib -- Side effects.
Products liability -- Drugs -- United States.
Torts -- United States.
Lanier, Mark.
Rofecoxib.
Liability (Law) -- United States -- Case studies.
Trials (Liability) -- United States.
Lanier, Mark.
ISBN 9781607146308
1607146304
Standard No. AU@ 000047300256

 
    
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