Legal Sandstorm – Worker Protection, Product Liability, and Warnings - (PDF) aiha.org

For those of you who want a history and analysis of silica litigation and silicosis cases and the relevant law surrounding them, this is a great presentation by John C. Warren, of Taylor Warren, LLC.  In it he also documents the findings of Judge Janice Jack and how that is changing the system.  Read More »

Judge Janice Jack made history on silicosis issue - Caller-Times (caller.com)

This editorial in the Caller-Times shortly after the silicosis litigation in 2005 pays homage to Judge Janice Graham Jack of Corpus Cristi and explains that “... her blunt assessment that the cases representing 10,000 plaintiffs that wound up in her court were all but scams to fleece the defendant companies has badly shaken the web of lawyers, expert witnesses and X-ray technicians who have milked the legal system for millions.”  Read More »

Silicosis Ruling Could Revamp Legal Landscape - npr.org legal affairs

This 2006 article by Wade Goodwyn in NPR legal affairs shows how mass tort plaintiff lawyers use the medical screening process to file questionable lawsuits for silicosis and asbestos claims.  The judge in this case, Janice Graham Jack, accuses the doctors and lawyers of “legal and medical fraud.”

One judge starts draining fetid legal swamp - Precision Plain English and Washington Examiner

More on the judge who upon receiving lawsuits “from some 10,000 silicosis plaintiffs to her court, seeking to have them combined for trial, returned most of the cases to the state courts where they originated, mainly in Mississippi. But not before dredging up a swamp of corruption on the plaintiffs' side.”   Read More »

Silica Order Could Affect Future Mass Tort Litigation - Law.com

Mary Alice Robbins writing for Texas Lawyer in July 2005 shows us that finally here is a judge who is exposing the questionable practices behind silicosis cases.  As U.S. District Court Judge Janice Graham Jack of Corpus Cristi, Texas, puts it in her 249-page order in In Re Silica Products Liability Litigation., "In a majority of cases, these diagnoses were more the creation of lawyers than of doctors."   Read More »