Do They Get Another Chance To Kick The Football On Appeal?
Via Jane Galt, some pained analysis of the anti-Vioxx verdict.
Now, I have no idea whether or not this case was properly decided, and I haven’t read the Merck defense, nor am I competent to do so. Anyway, for all I know, it was a load of nonsense. And yet, and yet, and yet, I defy anyone to read this bit without a chill running down their spine:
Jurors who voted against Merck said much of the science sailed right over their heads. “Whenever Merck was up there, it was like wah, wah, wah,” said juror John Ostrom, imitating the sounds Charlie Brown’s teacher makes in the television cartoon. “We didn’t know what the heck they were talking about.”
More quotes from the WSJ story here.
I do like that the juror in question, however, said “we voted against them because we were too dumb to understand their arguments” gives me confidence.
Especially given that the guy died from arhythmia, which is, you know, emphatically not a heart attack.
I think they lost for being all corporation-y.