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The window was uncurtained , and he could see the reflection of the candle , and , faintly , that of his own face , as he moved bout . " 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 . " " You are still the defender of Vioxx , are n't you ? In it , Alexander played a middle-class English tourist with an uncanny resemblance to the embattled King of Ruritania ; just put the middle-class Englishman in the right clothes , and he can play the part of a King to perfection . " It is not survival of the fittest , but survival of those most able to cooperate , " said one member of a panel of national experts who analyzed the survey . In this course we will both anatomize and test that claim , studying how an emergent social and scientific interest in the abnormal , the unnatural , and the pathological enabled Victorians to describe a variety of activities , affects , and beliefs as deviant . " 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 case of biography , this charge was intensified by related concerns that the act of writing up a lived life for the reading public was a gross invasion of privacy and a violation of the respect that is owed to the dead . " Buchanan suggested that Reicin 's ascent from an entry-level researcher to a company vice president in just nine years was linked to the blockbuster success of Vioxx .