Bob McCarty Writes

EDITOR’S NOTE: During the past 15 months, I’ve written some three-dozen posts about a lawsuit being battled by Chevron Corp. in Ecuador.  Because I’m a little under the weather, I’m leaving the “heavy lifting” about the latest news to arise about the case to my friend Carter Wood at the National Association of Manufacturers.  With [...]

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Imagine what life in 1913 would have been like if the trial lawyer army that exists today was around back then.  For starters, newspaper advertisements like the one Iver Johnson’s Arms & Cycle Works ran (above) would have led to thousands — or, perhaps, millions — of product liability lawsuits.  That, however, was another day [...]

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“CRUDE” is not only the name of an anti-Chevron film by Joe Berlinger, but it aptly describes the behavior of ultra-liberal Rep. James McGovern (D-Mass.) during the film’s Washington, D.C., premier Friday at the E Street Theater. A telling audio clip, courtesy Carter Wood at the Shop Floor blog, reveals how McGovern began by “licking [...]

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“You have a new form of business now for trial lawyers which is that they now go to foreign locations and try to root up and play off plaintiffs under circumstances under which legal systems are less well-developed and then try to export those judgments to the United States,” said Charles A. James, executive vice [...]

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If you’re like most Americans, you’ve probably heard little about an environmental lawsuit that has potential to produce the largest settlement in the history of the world.  In the space below, I offer for free information that might best be described as “The Definitive Guide to the Chevron Ecuador Lawsuit (hereinafter referred to as “The [...]

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After learning about Burger King®’s recent launch of FLAME™, a body spray that purportedly carries the scent of BK’s own flame-broiled hamburger’s, I began to wonder whether or not the fast-food giant’s legal team had considered fully the liability issues that might accompany the use of this product by BK loyalists. BK is using a [...]

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When I read a piece in which Barack Obama running mate Joe Biden was described by one source as a “rainmaker,” I just had to read it.  After all, The Rainmaker is one of my favorite John Grisham novels.  Interestingly, both the description of Biden and the Grisham book revolve around trial lawyers.  Here it [...]

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