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About John W. Haley
John W. Haley grew up in Birmingham and has been practicing law for over 35 years. His father, a sharecropper's son who became a lawyer and ultimately a judge, instilled in him the belief that a career in law was the best profession one could have. John attended Tulane University, then served in the U.S. military before completing his legal training at Cumberland School of Law, graduating magna cum laude. After graduating, John became one of the founding members of Noojin, Haley, and Ashford in 1975. For several years, he handled any case that came through the door: divorces, DUIs, criminal matters, bankruptcy, probate, and tort cases.
When his firm became part of Hare Wynn in 1980, John was equipped to handle personal injury and wrongful death cases, as well as complex commercial and business litigation. He has tried hundreds of cases and argued before the Supreme Court of Alabama and the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals on numerous occasions. His practice grew in the 1990s to include major class-action lawsuits, including cases against BP Oil and Shell Oil for discriminatory pricing, and representation of more than 3,000 pharmacists in a collective action against CVS. He was co-lead counsel in a derivative action on behalf of HealthSouth Corporation against its former CEO Richard Scrushy and others arising from a multi-billion dollar fraud.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Hare Wynn Newell & Newton
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Scott Powell of Hare Wynn Newell and Newton served as one of four co-lead class counsel in the $1.51 billion nationwide settlement against Syngenta, recovering losses for hundreds of thousands of U.S. corn growers, grain handlers, and ethanol producers whose market access to China was cut off after the company prematurely commercialized an unapproved GMO corn trait.
A class action filed in 2002 on behalf of roughly 400,000 residents across six north Alabama counties ended in a court-approved $300 million cleanup settlement requiring 3M and co-defendants to remediate PFAS contamination throughout the Tennessee River watershed.
Scott Powell of Hare Wynn Newell and Newton served as co-lead class counsel when a Kansas federal jury returned a $217.7 million compensatory verdict against Syngenta, finding the seed company negligent for commercializing its MIR162 GMO corn trait in the United States before China approved it for import, triggering a market collapse that cut off American farmers from one of their largest export buyers.
The widow of Derric Rush, a church music minister killed in a 2009 Birmingham crash by an off-duty police officer, won a default judgment against Club Volcano for serving the officer while intoxicated, after a trial on damages in 2013. The same judgment included $3.25 million against the officer, James Kendrick. The Alabama Supreme Court voided the club's judgment in 2014 because service by publication had not been shown to be justified.
A Bessemer jury returned a $15 million verdict against the owners of a BP convenience store that sold beer to an underage driver whose vehicle struck a tree, killing a 13-year-old passenger and injuring three others in May 2007.
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