Slammed

CINCINNATI, Ohio – Stanley Chesley, a once-prominent plaintiffs attorney known as the “master of disaster,” may face the continued freezing of his assets after an appeals court upheld an injunction against him. The court reached this decision after determining that Chesley, who was disbarred in Cincinnati, is likely to engage in what it called a “high-stakes shell game.” The case emerged from his former clients’ efforts to collect on a $42 million judgment obtained from a Kentucky state court. These funds come from a $200 million settlement in 2001 related to fen-phen, a diet drug … Read more