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By Amanda Bronstad | May 9, 2024
Dean Omar, the Dallas-based plaintiffs firm that won a $45 million talcum powder verdict last month against Johnson & Johnson, opened on Thursday with another trial. Orrick's Will Stute represented Johnson & Johnson.
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By Amanda Bronstad | May 1, 2024
Wednesday's proposed plan immediately got pushback from lawyers representing ovarian cancer victims: "This is not a done deal," Beasley Allen's Andy Birchfield told Law.com. "There is substantial opposition to this."
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 29, 2024
Jury selection began Monday in St. Louis in a case brought by two Ohio women and one woman in Oklahoma.
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 22, 2024
Friday's verdict against Johnson & Johnson, in Chicago's Cook County Circuit Court, is the first for a mesothelioma victim since two failed talc bankruptcies last year—and a groundbreaking win for Dallas-based Dean Omar Branham Shirley.
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 19, 2024
Thursday's verdict comes in the second ovarian cancer trial since Johnson & Johnson's failed talc bankruptcies last year.
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 10, 2024
Andy Birchfield, of Beasley Allen, took the stand on Wednesday to fend off Johnson & Johnson's allegations that he breached his ethical duties by working with one of its former lawyers to come up with a proposed $19 billion talc settlement.
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By Amanda Bronstad | April 1, 2024
The second trial since the dismissal of Johnson & Johnson's talc bankruptcy last year opened on Monday, alleging its baby powder caused Patricia Matthey's ovarian cancer.
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By Amanda Bronstad | March 27, 2024
U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp, overseeing more than 50,000 talc lawsuits in multidistrict litigation, cited recent changes to Federal Rule of Evidence 702 and new science since the first Daubert hearing in 2020.
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By Amanda Bronstad | March 26, 2024
Johnson & Johnson's worldwide vice president of litigation, Erik Haas, and Jim Murdica, outside counsel at Barnes & Thornburg, testified on Monday that they were shocked to find out a former member of their team had been working with plaintiffs' lawyer Andy Birchfield as early as April 2023.
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By Amanda Bronstad | March 25, 2024
Chief U.S. District Judge Nancy Rosenstengel, in the Southern District of Illinois, has issued a series of discovery orders after finding many of the 5,200 lawsuits over paraquat are "implausible on their face."
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