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...decade-long case pitting veterans against Dow Chemical, Monsanto and the U.S. government over the use of a toxic defoliant in Vietnam--in six weeks. Soon other judges and lawyers were asking him to step between warring parties, and in cases ranging from the faulty birth-control device Dalkon Shield to asbestos exposure, Feinberg got the job done, more or less inventing the field of mass tort mediation as he went along. "The secret to Ken's success," says a judge who has worked with Feinberg on a number of occasions, "is that he knows when to listen and when...
Mass tort cases are a relatively new and increasingly important field. Dalkon Shield was one of the first such cases and helped establish U.S. legal precedent on the subject...
...various times, nearly 100 firms from around the world used the data compiled by Brown and Szaller to pursue civil actions against the makers of the Dalkon Shield, an intrauterine contraceptive introduced in the American market in 1971 by the A. H. Robins Company...
...Dalkon collection joins a large group of historical sources at Langdell, including the papers of Supreme Court justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Class of 1861, Felix Frankfurter, the letters of Sacco and Vanzetti and documents from the Nuremberg war trials...
...Dalkon papers will be among the law school's largest collections, occupying about 185 linear feet of drawer space...