• Case
    Liability of Silence

    A Houston attorney leading the charge against Ford and Firestone knew there was a problem, but couldn’t talk

    Beating big corporations with big verdicts made Richard Mithoff one of the country’s best known product liability attorneys.

    PublicationDetroit Free Press
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    November 7, 2000

  • Case
    Files on tires’ recall must be disclosed in suit, judge rules

    Data between Ford, Firestone included

    Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. has to publicly disclose documents related to its recall of some tires that have been blamed for vehicle crashes, a judge in Houston ruled.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle Metropolitan
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    October 3, 2000

  • Case
    Texas Lawyer: the ticker

    Public Citizen Inc. wants the court to turn down a request from Ford Motor Co. and Bridgestone-Firestone Inc. for a protective order that would keep documents in a tire-tread suit private. Public Citizen, a nonprofit public interest group founded by Ralph Nader, filed the amicus curiae brief in a suit filed in state court by a Crosby woman who was injured in an accident in 1999 in a Ford Explorer equipped with Firestone tires.

    PublicationTexas Lawyer
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    September 25, 2000

  • Case
    Group fights Firestone motion

    Crosby litigant gets help in effort to publicize tire problems

    A consumer watchdog group founded by Ralph Nader has gotten behind a Crosby woman’s fight to disclose publicly any information that she gains on Firestone’s tread-separation problems.

    PublicationHouston Chronicle Metropolitan
    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff, Janie L. Jordan.

    Year

    September 19, 2000

  • Case
    Accutane Maker Agrees to Pay Mother, Son to Settle Lawsuit

    The manufacturer of the acne drug Accutane has agreed to pay a 9-year-old boy and his mother an unspecified amount to settle a lawsuit that alleged the drug caused the child to be born with several deformities.

    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff.

    Year

    August 25, 1993

  • Case
    A Clouded Victory

    Woman’s 1977 Lawsuit Over Failed Breast Implants Foreshadowed Current Furor

    Norma Corley has been following the gathering storm of controversy surrounding silicone gel implants with more than passing interest. Fifteen years ago Corley fought her own battle with the manufacturer of her silicone gel implants, one of which she said leaked and caused severe medical problems.

    The first case against silicon gel breast implants, won by Richard Mithoff in 1977.

    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff.

    Year

    February 25, 1992

  • Case
    East Texan Knew About the Breast Implant Perils Years Ago

    A Liberty County woman says she knew 15 years ago what the American public learned Monday — that the manufacturer of a silicone gel breast implants had extensive knowledge of problems with the product.

    Attorneys

    Richard Warren Mithoff.

    Year

    February 11, 1992