The Louisville Courier-Journal finds its tongue just long enough to announce that 77-year-old co-defendant Melbourne Mills, Jr.’s ankles have swelled, sending him to the hospital for a cardiologist’s examination and observation.
U.S. District Judge William Bertelsman ordered the jury to return Friday morning. He said he would decide then what to do if Mills was still in the hospital.
Meanwhile, the North Kentucky edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer reports that the trial judge who approved (and then himself allegedly mightily-profited-from) the settlement of the 2006 civil case against American Home Products (now Wyeth), Jay Bamberger, finished his testimony yesterday. But here’s as much as it tells us about his third day on the stand:
Bamberger testified that he never would have approved the fees had the defendants told him the truth – that they had signed a contract with each defendant that called for about one-third of the settlement for legal fees. [Repeating what he said on Day One?]
Bamberger said he also was not told the Kentucky Bar Association had launched an investigation into the settlement and had subpoenaed records when he approved the lawyers’ fees.
I dunno. This sudden mumming-up of local media just beats all, don’t it? (All except maybe Mississippi’s media on the beef-plant case . . . )
