A Los Angeles judge has tentatively cleared the way for a Johnson & Johnson motion to toss out about 100 out-of-state plaintiffs from the coordinated talcum powder litigation in California in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s jurisdictional decision last year in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California.

At a hearing on Thursday, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maren Nelson tentatively rejected a motion by lead plaintiffs attorneys Mark Robinson and Helen Zukin to conduct discovery to address jurisdiction questions they face under Bristol-Myers, which made it harder for out-of-state plaintiffs to sue out-of-state defendants in state courts. In court, Johnson & Johnson attorney G. Gregg Webb, a San Francisco partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, told the judge that about 600 plaintiffs in the California cases had already voluntarily dismissed their claims since the decision in Bristol-Myers.

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