To Carla Tennyson, the case against Merck & Co. and its Vioxx pill boiled down to one thing ... go toward giving her husband the around-the-clock medical care he needs.

The wheels of justice will spin a little faster at the next Vioxx trial. A pair of chess clocks will see to that. Determined to keep it short, lawyers for Merck & Co. and two men suing the ...

The legal fight over Vioxx returned to a New Jersey courtroom ... New Jersey Superior Court Judge Carol Higbee planned to use a pair of chess clocks to enforce time limits agreed upon by lawyers ...

Merck argued that the two-year clock began when the first hint of Vioxx trouble was made public in September 2001; investors disagreed. Justice Stephen Breyer, writing an unanimous judgment for ...

Whether the high court agrees with the drug maker will help clarify the legal standards for determining exactly when the clock starts running ... after Merck pulled Vioxx off the market.

Eight weeks after a Texas jury handed drug maker Merck & Co. a $253-million verdict in its first Vioxx product liability ... statute of limitations, with the clock starting when the plaintiff ...