Kentucky

From Herald Leader is story on one litigant's issues on diet drug settlement and court's pending review.  BTW Judge Crittendon is doing the review, and his reputation and integrity are the best as he attempts to find justice in this Gordian knot.

Judge reviewing fen-phen fund

James McPherson has a litany of complaints against the three lawyers who handled a $200 million settlement over the diet drug fen-phen on behalf of him and more than 400 others.

"I don't think this has ever been fair and I don't think it ever can be," McPherson said.

McPherson was one of more than two-dozen former clients of suspended attorneys William Gallion, Shirley Cunningham Jr. and Melbourne Mills Jr. to ask Special Judge Roger Crittenden if and how $23.5 million recovered from the settlement will be distributed.

Crittenden said Friday he would review possible allocations and objections before deciding what to do with the money.

"From your perception, you don't think justice has been done," Crittenden said. "When the whole thing is over, you probably won't think it's been done either. We'll do the best we can with the system of justice we have."