Attorney Collyn A Peddie's Legal Cases

Appeals

Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations v. Brown, 131 S. Ct. 2846 (2011)

Jun 27, 2011

OUTCOME: Reversed

Argued and represented as lead counsel at the merits stage families of two boys killed in a bus accident. The question presented is whether 3 foreign subsidiaries of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company cou ... ld be sued in North Carolina and addresses questions of general jurisdiction the Court had not taken up in more than 25 years.

Appeals

Pliva, Inc. v. Mensing, 132 S. Ct. 55 (2011)

Jun 13, 2011

OUTCOME: Reversed

Represented former editors of NEJM as amicus curiae in support of Respondents in cases determining whether failure-to-warn claims involving generic prescription drugs are preempted under certain circum ... stances.

Appeals

Wright v. Aventis Pasteur, Inc., 2011 PA Super 9 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2011)

Jan 11, 2011

OUTCOME: Affirmed

Successfully defended [8-1] before en banc Pennsylvania intermediate appellate court decision finding no preemption of vaccine design defect claims absent a preliminary determination that no safer alte ... rnatives exist.

Appeals

Wyeth v. Levine, 129 S. Ct. 1187, 173 L. Ed. 2d 51 (2009)

Jan 01, 2009

OUTCOME: Affirmed

asked by the California Medical Association to represent the organization in filing an amicus curiae brief on behalf of successful Petitioner Diana Levine in landmark case involving the potential preem ... ption of virtually all pharmaceutical failure to warn claims.

Appeals

Entergy Gulf States, Inc. v. Summers, 282 S.W.3d 433 (Tex. 2009)

Jan 01, 2009

OUTCOME: Rehearing denied with new opinion

asked to represent Mr. Summers at oral argument on rare rehearing to reverse landmark case declaring the state workers’ compensation bar encompasses plant owners. Had previously represented Texas AFL- ... CIO and other leading labor organizations in filing an amicus curiae brief in support of Mr. Summers.

Appeals

Hernandez v. Brinker Int’l, Inc., 285 S.W.3d 152 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2009, no. pet.)

Jan 01, 2009

OUTCOME: Reversed

successfully overturned summary judgment that held that Chapter 95 did not apply to bar a worker’s claim against a property owner, the first time, in 34 appellate decisions, an appellate court has so h ... eld.

Appeals

In re Bayer MaterialScience, LLC, 265 S.W.3d 452 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2007, orig. proceeding):

Jan 01, 2007

OUTCOME: Mandamus denied

successfully opposed two mandamuses of trial judge’s favorable decision on alleged mandatory arbitration in large refinery case in intermediate court of appeals and Texas Supreme Court [no written opin ... ion]. so held.

Appeals

In re Collins, 242 S.W.3d 837 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st. Dist.] 2006, orig. proceeding)

Jan 01, 2006

OUTCOME: Mandamus granted

successful mandamus on question of whether amicus statute permits amicus attorney to hire counsel for personal injury lawsuit. It does not.

Appeals

In re Lincoln Electric Co., et al., 2005 Tex. App. LEXIS 9755 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] Nov. 23, 2005, orig. proceeding)

Jan 01, 2005

OUTCOME: Affirmed

successfully upheld grant of new trial in welding rod case and principle that trial judges may grant new trials in the interests of justice without further explanation.

Appeals

Sealift, Inc. v. Satterly, 2003 WL 21664672 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2003, no pet.)

Jan 01, 2003

OUTCOME: Affirmed

successfuly upheld special appearance in case declaring for the first time that letters of protection are not contracts.

Collyn A Peddie's Legal Cases (17)

Goodyear Dunlop Tires Operations v. Brown, 131 S. Ct. 2846 (2011)

Pliva, Inc. v. Mensing, 132 S. Ct. 55 (2011)

Wright v. Aventis Pasteur, Inc., 2011 PA Super 9 (Pa. Super. Ct. 2011)

Wyeth v. Levine, 129 S. Ct. 1187, 173 L. Ed. 2d 51 (2009)

Entergy Gulf States, Inc. v. Summers, 282 S.W.3d 433 (Tex. 2009)

Hernandez v. Brinker Int’l, Inc., 285 S.W.3d 152 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2009, no. pet.)

In re Bayer MaterialScience, LLC, 265 S.W.3d 452 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st Dist.] 2007, orig. proceeding):

In re Collins, 242 S.W.3d 837 (Tex. App.—Houston [1st. Dist.] 2006, orig. proceeding)

In re Lincoln Electric Co., et al., 2005 Tex. App. LEXIS 9755 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] Nov. 23, 2005, orig. proceeding)

Sealift, Inc. v. Satterly, 2003 WL 21664672 (Tex. App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 2003, no pet.)