Thomas Crane, chief of general litigation for the city, said that the city disagreed with the judge's rationale and was considering how to respond.
Thomas Crane, chief of general litigation for the city's corporation counsel, said the city routinely tells people applying for public assistance which screening and treatment services are available, as required by law.
The Texas lawsuit, which was one of the first to be filed, has turned up some evidence unfavorable to the pharmaceutical companies, said Jeff Boyd, deputy attorney general for general litigation.
"He is a privately retained lawyer working for the village," said Mr. Farber, a general litigation lawyer.
In general, litigation is far more costly than arbitration.
Laments Heather Redman, general counsel for Getty Images: "As the industry gets bigger and better-known and the players in it get bigger and better-known the general litigation environment gets more and more difficult".
The bride, 34, is an assistant general counsel, focusing on patent litigation, for Honeywell International in Morristown, N.J.
"The market forces and economics will dictate who ends up owning American General," said John Cambria, co-chairman of litigation for the international law firm Salans.
"That's riddled with legal problems," said Ann Berwick, who formerly handled environmental litigation for the Massachusetts attorney general and now works as an industry lobbyist for companies that oppose President Bush's plan.
The bridegroom, 38, is the company's associate general counsel for litigation.
John F. Cooney, a lawyer in Washington who specializes in bank regulation and a former deputy general counsel for litigation and regulatory affairs at the Office of Management and Budget, said that the decision upholds the theme of federalism that has run through several important cases of this just-ended Supreme Court term.
