Welcome to Critical MassLaw.com’s weekly briefing on class actions and mass torts. Here’s what’s happening this week: Federal courts are struggling with thegovernment shutdown–and that includes MDLs. Why a talcum powder trial of 13 women with ovarian cancer ended before it began. And serial objector lawyer Christopher Bandas got hit with a big ruling in Illinois.

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