EAST ST. LOUIS - Sandra Scott of Washington County testified at a default judgment hearing about the death of husband Toby Scott; but if U.S. District Judge David Dugan grants her request for $10 million, she’ll have to collect from a Chinese company that fired its lawyers and never returned.
EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge David Dugan, who granted default judgment against Chinese electric sock maker Global Vasion in a wrongful death suit in 2021, has set a hearing on Nov. 15 to determine damages.
EAST ST. LOUIS – U.S. District Judge David Dugan showed little interest in expanding a wrongful death claim into a claim that Amazon protects negligent Chinese suppliers from liability.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Amazon protects Chinese suppliers from liability, according to lawyers for a widow who can’t enforce a judgment she secured in a wrongful death suit at U.S. district court.
EAST ST. LOUIS – Amazon, defending a wrongful death suit alone after Chinese supplier Global Vasion defaulted, seeks protection from a question about the ability of its customers to obtain compensation for injuries from Chinese suppliers.