Courts
U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Cases
- Won a reversal and a new trial on the punitive damages phase of a product liability case originally tried by another firm in 1998. Persuaded the second jury to award only one-third of the amount awarded in the initial trial.
- Obtained reversal in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals of a trial court's refusal to send a contract dispute to arbitration. WTO successfully resolved the case for a telecommunications company client after the Ninth Circuit ruling.
- Obtained summary judgment for Pfizer in a case alleging wrongful death, failure to warn, and other claims involving the company's popular antidepressant, and won on appeal in the Ninth Circuit.
Attorneys
Galen D. Bellamy
Meghan Frei Berglind
Thomas C. Dec
Hugh Q. Gottschalk
William D. Hauptman
Peter W. Herzog III
LaMar F. Jost
Colleen M. Koch
Raymond W. Martin
Craig R. May
Allison R. McLaughlin
Habib Nasrullah
Daniel N. Nightingale
Kara J. Rosenthal
Jessica Goneau Scott
William P. Sowers
Malcolm E. Wheeler
Michael T. Williams
Frederick R. Yarger