Christopher Sean Patterson

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Associate

  Firm Name

  Duane Morris LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Represented Berryman Products, Inc. in a multi-plaintiff toxic tort case in Kern County, California involving more than 70 defendants
  the plaintiffs claimed they contracted a rare cancer, Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia, due to their exposures at various oil well sites, but the court agreed with Berryman that the plaintiffs were mis-joined
  that the case should be severed into separate actions for trial because plaintiffs' claims did not arise out of the same transaction or occurrence.
  Defended several commercial clients over the past few years in mass toxic tort cases involving claims of premises
  products liability
  alleged exposure to asbestos, talc, TCE,
  benzene.
  Represents the Judicial Council of California, judicial officers, courts,
  court employees throughout the State in litigation involving government liability
  constitutional challenges to court rulings
  operations.
  Represented
  assisted one of world's largest companies, in implementation of national coordination of defending asbestos personal injury claims arising from alleged exposure to friction products.
  Assisted trial counsel for petroleum, construction,
  manufacturing companies in multiple cases that resolved during the motion in limine
  jury selection phase.
  Served as second chair trial counsel representing
  defending a clerk of the Appellate District against claims of racial discrimination, resulting in a defense verdict, before the Northern District of California.
  Successfully moved for summary judgment on suit for violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (Title I), based on claims that the Superior Court failed to provide litigants with disabilities appropriate accommodations.
  Defeated a putative class action against the judicial branch protesting the constitutionality of jury fee deposits.
  Defeated a putative class action (in trial court
  on appeal) against a state court
  its employees alleging due process violations related to the imposition of civil assessments associated with traffic citations.
  Defeated a malicious prosecution
  racial discrimination action filed against a state court judge for her alleged role in a scheme among other local prosecutors
  law enforcement officials to manufacture criminal charges against an attorney
  derail his efforts to fill a judicial vacancy.
  Obtained voluntary no-pay dismissals for a pharmaceutical distributor after filing summary judgment motions establishing that our client's over-the-counter talcum powder was not contaminated with asbestos
  that the plaintiffs' personal injury claims were preempted by the Federal Food, Drug
  Cosmetics Act.