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Typically , it is done by lawyers whose firms have a large number of related cases and are within geographic reach of the courthouse , helping them craft their cases by seeing what works and what does n't . " U.S. Food and Drug Administration drug safety expert David Graham told the Senate Finance Committee last November that research indicates Vioxx caused up to 160,000 heart attacks and strokes.Pharmaceuticals analyst Al Rauch at A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. said the shift in Merck 's position on settlements appears to be a goodwill gesture after the jury in Angleton , Texas , last Friday awarded $ 253.4 million in damages - - likely to be reduced to $ 26 million under Texas caps on punitive damages - - to the widow of Bob Ernst . " We're taking some of the information they had and seeing if we can cover some of the problems they had with it [ at the next trial ] , " the prosecutor said.Asked how he planned to address the problems some jurors had with Arrant 's testimony , the prosecutor said , " I could do a little more prep on the manner he presents himself in court , but there 's not a whole lot I can do . I do sometimes lecture for 5-15 minute stretches , but the bulk of our time will be spent in real discussion , and the topics of our discussion will be determined as much by your intellectual interests as by my own . Merck in August lost its first product liability case in Texas over the death of another Vioxx user , and 5,000 similar lawsuits are pending.Merck voluntarily pulled the drug from the market a year ago after its own study found that more than 18 months of Vioxx use could double the risk of heart attack and stroke.Higbee said the court had not been made aware of the nature of Morrison 's testimony in advance.The judge 's actions went beyond the request Humeston 's lawyers made Thursday to strike only Morrison 's testimony about certain animal studies.Higbee called for a brief break after her ruling . " This is a way to get people in . We're trying to aspire to an accessibility that was characteristic of neighborhood libraries in the 1950s . This means that you should expect class periods to be intense and fun , a place to test out your own ideas about what we're reading . The purpose of the assignment is twofold . Earnestness , prudishness , perversity , complacency , boundless optimism and bottomless despair are all indelibly linked , in our minds , to that peculiarly conflicted abstraction , the Victorian temper ; just as the works of Dickens , Eliot , Carroll , Collins , Flaubert and Wilde all embody wildly divergent visions of that fantastically malleable animal , the Victorian novel . During voir dire , she admitted to missteps as a teenager and said that whenever her parents asked what she had been thinking , she responded , " I said , ' I was n't thinking . " Well I just wanted to let everyone know I have n't been online or posting becuase I am grounded for getting an 89 % on a math test , and I have computer restrictions because the parental units found my wicca books , " she once wrote.About five weeks later , her mother 's severely burned body was found in a van . Why are n't some people training to become professionals in our field ? Radel testified that he committed the killing out of loyalty to Arrant , his best friend , and Arrant said he arranged the murder at the behest of Waterman , who claimed she was being physically abused by her mother.Judge Patricia Collins dismissed all charges against Rachelle Waterman.Both men are to be sentenced on first-degree murder charges Thursday.Shortly after the jury deadlocked 10-to-2 in favor of acquitting Waterman , her lawyer filed court papers asking the judge to acquit her . The real world is political and economical ; if we're going to figure out how culture can be more widely disseminated we 'll have to deal with money , and how funding can be managed credibly and feasibly . Coming back again a few minutes later , he had been strongly of opinion that he had only made matters worse . But the non-economic damages have no limits in this case.Lanier asked jurors to award at least $ 40 million in non-economic damages and implored the panel to " be the first jury in America to say ` Time out , Merck . " Remember , possibilities are not evidence , " Lowry said later.Lanier began his closing argument by explaining that a civil verdict can be reached if 10 or more jurors agree based on a preponderance of evidence , rather than the more strict requirement in criminal cases of unanimous agreement beyond a reasonable doubt . It is important to plan ahead : I do not give extensions , and I penalize late papers severely - - a paper one day late will be marked down one full letter grade ( in other words , the highest it can get is a B ) ; a paper two days late will suffer two grades off ( the highest it can earn is a C ) and so on . The other inspector had been through Oleron 's study and had found nothing , and was now in the kitchen , kicking aside an ankle-deep mass of vegetable refuse that cumbered the floor . The Cornell Brown Penn United Kingdom Centre is another invaluable resource . " " You are still the defender of Vioxx , are n't you ?