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He had discovered one day that by opening every door in his place ( always excepting the outer one , which he only opened unwillingly ) and by placing himself on this particular spot , he could actually see to a greater or less extent into each of his five rooms without changing his position . Each time , she refused.In the end , that turned out to be a blessing - and a much-needed one - for Merck , which pulled Vioxx off the market last year after a study showed it increased the risk of heart attacks and strokes after 18 months ' use.The six-woman , three-man jury concluded that Merck adequately disclosed information about the drug 's risks and could not be held accountable for Humeston 's heart attack . Along the way , we 'll sample the work of various Victorian nonfiction writers who were concerned with what it meant to record history , what it meant to create art , and what it meant to do both at once . They accepted the unconventional status , came and went freely , as men did , were honestly taken by men at their own valuation - - and then it turned out to be the other thing after all , and they went and fell in love . From the moment of Pickwick until his sudden death in 1870 , Dickens essentially owned the Victorian novel on both sides of the Atlantic . In the 1890s , there were over fifty theatres in greater London , most of the them in the West End , a half dozen alone along Shaftesbury Avenue , which had been completed in 1886 as part of an urban renewal plan off of Picadilly Circus . " It 's been identified by both the court and both sides as having some value as a precedent in establishing the liability and the value of these cases . " Nowhere in your records did you write the opinion you're giving today that Vioxx caused Mr. Humeston 's heart attack , " Merck lawyer Diane Sullivan told Lewer.Sullivan , who had told jurors a day earlier that any physician who did n't know about a 2000 study that found heart attacks in Vioxx users " had to be living under a rock , " asked Lewer why he had n't seen reports of the trials in medical journals . In the spirit of maintaining a continuous extracurricular dialogue about deviance , each member of the class will be required to contribute regularly and substantially to the listserv . " But for all of their epigramatic wit and paradoxical attitudes towards life , Oscar Wilde 's other 1890s society comedies ( Lady Windermere 's Fan , A Woman of No Importance , and An Ideal Husband ) are all serious " problem " dramas about the intractability of sexual double-standards and the personal costs of respectability , precisely those issues that Wilde appears ( at least ) to be satirizing in The Importance of Being Earnest . " 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 . They irritated him , so that he set his teeth and shook his fist at her , but that was all . Our collective aim will be to arrive at an understanding of how the history of the novel has in many ways been the history of debates about the novel - - about whether novels were morally uplifting or socially threatening or both , about whether novels were art or entertainment or both , about what kinds of truths novels could tell about what kinds of subjects , and about whether , and on what terms , novels could properly claim to participate in the social and philosophical debates of their day . " We expect to oppose any attempt to splinter , to disrupt the operation of the MDL , " Frazier told the analysts , referring to multidistrict litigation in federal court.In the MDL , pretrial evidence-gathering for thousands of Vioxx suits in federal courts is consolidated to save time and prevent Merck officials from having to give repeated depositions.Merck outside counsel Ted Mayer said the company also prefers keeping cases in the MDL because that gives Merck consistent rulings on standards for admitting evidence and for expert testimony.He added that Merck has plenty of legal teams to handle simultaneous trials.Evidence rules in state courts , on the other hand , generally allow plaintiffs more leeway.Lanier said Merck expected to fight most Vioxx cases in federal courts in the MDL , but he expects to have 10 legal teams running state trials nearly continuously , tying up Merck resources.Lanier said his lawyers ' group already has about 20,000 potential lawsuits , with only about 10 percent filed so far.The lawyers will share depositions , documents , legal strategies and focus group opinions , according to Lanier , who in August won a $ 253.4 million verdict for the widow of a Texas Vioxx user in the first case to come to trial.That amount will be reduced to about $ 26 million because Texas caps punitive damages.Merck shares rose 82 cents , or 3.1 percent , to $ 27 in trading on the New York Stock Exchange.Whitehouse Station-based Merck withdrew Vioxx from the market in September 2004 after research showed long-term use of the drug doubled risk of heart attack and stroke . Educators and cultural institutions are both talking about the same concepts , but in different ways . Plaintiff lawyers say those numbers are probably just a drop in the bucket.Nearly all are product liability cases , often called personal injury suits . We will also examine how each genre addressed , criticized , and shaped the other . Independent , yet not efficient ; with some of womanhood 's graces forgone , and yet with all the woman 's hunger and need ; half sophisticated , yet not wise ; Oleron was tired of it all .... He moved from room to room softly and in slippers , and sometimes stood for any seconds closing a door so gently that not a sound broke the stillness that was in itself a delight . You often learn from yourself as you speak , and you will frequently produce ideas and theories as a class by building on and occasionally challenging each other 's comments . If you or your parents have any questions about the program , please do n't hesitate to contact John Richetti , Penn English 's 2003-04 Undergraduate Chair Michael Gamer , or David Wallace , Chairman of Penn English . ) Paper-based materials , photographs , furniture , paintings , and textile collections were the most common types of collections , and are held at approximately half of all the institutions .