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He added that a second loss might have pressured Merck to begin settlement talks.Still , Erichson said , it is difficult to predict the litigation 's future based on only two cases.For now , Merck is elated and investors were pleased . I have spaced this so that your heaviest reading assignments will fall on Mondays and Fridays , giving you a bit of a breather mid-week . " It was just too hard to accept she could be as cold as that , " he said.He added that while " in some ways , she is a typical teenager ... We will ask what it means to locate the origins of a major national conflict in literature , particularly literature that is not remotely concerned with either the nation or the conflict in question ; we will ask , too , what happens when we displace explanations of political events onto art . Each , too , was regarded with suspicion for its working assumption that the trivial details , secret passions , and private struggles of everyday life may be the stuff of art , scholarship , and legitimate public interest . " 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 . The worlds of the late-Victorian theatre and the flesh trade overlapped directly , particularly at the Empire Theatre in Leicester Square . " This aspect of the ' confession , ' i.e ., that Waterman aided in the break-in by providing information about how to break into the house falls apart under close scrutiny , " Collins wrote in a six-page decision she released during the hearing.She added that the false statement about the window make " other statements of potential responsibility for her mother 's death more suspect . " The night Bob died , we lost my mom , too , " Shawna Sherrill said of her mother , Carol Ernst , the plaintiff in the lawsuit over Robert Ernst 's 2001 death . They irritated him , so that he set his teeth and shook his fist at her , but that was all . He had a very ticklish piece of work now before him ; it required the greatest mental concentration ; it was nothing less than to bring his mind , if he might , into such a state of unpreoccupation and receptivity that he should see the place as he had seen it on that morning when , his removal accomplished , he had sat down to begin the sixteenth chapter of the first Romilly . In the middle of the mantelpiece there stood a picture , a portrait of his grandmother ; he placed himself before this picture , so that he could see in the glass of it the steady flame of the candle that burned behind him on the chest of drawers . In that year , too , the Anglo-Irish writer Maria Edgeworth published Castle Rackrent , a short novel that helped inaugurate a long tradition of writing against the English occupation of Ireland from within the confines of fiction .