Blake's parting shot and the big what-if.(Opinion)

RCR Wireless News, February, 2006

Byline: Jeffrey Silva

In a seemingly endless controversy of unexpected twists and turns, there is little mystery in what U.S. District Judge Catherine Blake was thinking when she thought she was saying goodbye to the last of many cell-phone health suits that have come her way during the past five-and-a-half years.

Blake, smartly credentialed and highly regarded in legal circles, threw out five class-action headset suits in 2003 on federal pre-emption grounds. Months earlier, Blake rejected an $800 million brain-cancer suit filed by neurologist Christopher Newman after determining the scientific evidence offered by his legal team's expert witnesses was insufficient to warrant the case going to trial. And that was that. Or so it seemed at the...

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