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Leigh Day and Motley Rice will assist as consultants dealing with issues outside of Brazil regarding environmental and personal injury class action litigation.

A Milwaukee, Wis., jury has found lead pigment manufacturers The Sherwin-Williams Co., E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., and Armstrong Containers, Inc., responsible for the toxic lead exposures of three young men, all residents of Milwaukee and minors at the time of their lead exposure in their homes. The jury awarded $6 million total, $2 million to each plaintiff.

Motley Rice filed a consolidated amended complaint involving Riot Blockchain, Inc. alleging the company and its officers orchestrated a pump-and-dump scheme to misled shareholders about the company’s supposed transformation from a maker of veterinary products to a miner of cryptocurrency.

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in a Food Drug and Cosmetic Act preemption case Merck v. Albrecht. The case sought to settle whether a judge or jury should decide the fate of complex medical litigation claims barred by prior FDA action, and to articulate standards for such “clear evidence” preemption.

Motley Rice announces the addition of attorneys Esther E. Berezofsky, Michael J. Quirk, Daniel R. Lapinski, and Sarah T. Hansel, and the creation of offices in Cherry Hill, N.J., and Philadelphia, Pa.

Fourteen Motley Rice attorneys were named to the 2019 Super Lawyers® and Rising Stars for South Carolina, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia.

Attorney James Ledlie was featured by the CDC for his work in public health law. The Q&A interview highlights James’ legal career, detailing his significant cases, his current focus areas and lessons he has learned along the way.

NHTSA announced it is expanding its investigation into potentially defective airbags that may fail to deploy in a wreck and that have caused at least eight deaths in the United States. The airbags may not deploy due to “electrical overstress.”

Allegations were recently raised that in the midst of VW’s attempts to restore broken trust, the company and its subsidiary Audi were secretly lying to customers and regulators by selling pre-production vehicles to the public that legally should have been headed for the junkyard. It’s a classic case of irony.

Motley Rice is co-class counsel in the case in which plaintiffs allege Twitter Inc. knowingly concealed and made false statements about key operating metrics, allegedly in violation of the federal securities laws.