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Place , " Jay Calvert , from Morgan , Lewis & Bockius , asked a reasonable question : " What do you perceive will be the end product of this conference ? He could not have assigned the cause of the fits of quit weeping which took him sometimes ; they came and went , like the fitful illumination of the clouds that travelled over the square ; and perhaps , after all , if he was not happy , he was not unhappy . We need to apply our scholarship standards to what we make available through the internet . 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 . Now is the time to apply if you would like to be a part of next year 's program , which will be directed by Professor John Richetti . " I would be surprised if Merck would just cave [ and settle cases ] simply based on having to have lawyers run in a lot of different directions , " said Deborah Barnard , a Boston lawyer specializing in product liability cases.But New York attorney Michael London , who is handling more than 100 Vioxx lawsuits but is not on Lanier 's team , said Lanier 's strategy is a good one because it makes things less predictable for Merck.With nearly all the lawsuits so far filed either in New Jersey or federal court and just two judges overseeing those cases now , London said , Merck can expect consistent rulings and know when its cases will be scheduled for trial.Merck can automatically move to federal court any class action cases , although that 's a tiny minority so far , and any cases filed in state courts outside of New Jersey.If the plaintiff in the state court also names a second defendant , such as a doctor or pharmacy , in that plaintiff 's home state , usually the case cannot be moved to federal court . Dickens took full advantage of this grisly opportunity , hiring another illustrator and turning what was once a picture-centered project that placed him firmly in the background into a text-centered enterprise centered on himself . If there is a breath of this repeated . We will attempt over the course of the term to unravel the complexities of this convergence , asking both why the Romantic era interests the great Victorian novelists and how the writing of these novelists develops Scott 's Romantic aesthetic into a protocol for Victorian realism . In the bright June sunlight a crowd filled the square , and looked up at the windows of the old house with the antique insurance marks in its walls of red brick and the agents ' notice-boards hanging like wooden choppers over the paling . " Four months later , the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services wrote to Merck President Raymond Gilmartin and told him the promotional campaign was misleading.The claim that Vioxx " has a ' favorable cardiovascular profile ' is simply incomprehensible , " said the letter from Thomas W. Abrams , director of the Department 's Division of Drug Marketing , Advertising and Communication , which monitors pharmaceutical advertising.Last year , after Vioxx was pulled off the market , senior FDA epidemiologist David Graham published a treatise in Lancet that said " 88,000 to 140,000 excess cases of serious coronary heart disease probably occurred in the USA over the market life of rofecoxib , " or Vioxx.When trials show that a new treatment " confers a greater risk of a serious adverse effect than a standard treatment , we must be much more careful about allowing its unrestrained use , " Graham wrote.Under cross-examination , Lucchesi — who was on the stand when the documents were presented on an overhead projector — read fine print at the bottom of the study that said the opinions were not necessarily those of the FDA.The documents swung the tenor of what started as a good day for Merck , with Lucchesi acknowledging he had misspoken on the stand earlier.He told jurors he had not reviewed a document attached to a 1997 e-mail message from a Merck scientist that he said on Friday showed Merck had tried to alter the design of an upcoming study by giving aspirin to patients on Vioxx to protect their hearts . Over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , the genre of the novel evolved alongside that of biography . The novel was a crucial part of this broad cultural obsession with the unacceptable , providing elaborate meditations on what it meant to be normal , as well as on what it meant to transgress the bounds of decency . Because of the intensely interactive nature of this course , I expect you to attend all classes and I expect you to come to class prepared .