Welcome to Critical Mass, Law.com’s weekly briefing on class actions and mass torts. Here’s what’s happening: Voting is over, but election-related class actions remain. The Northern District of California came out with new guidelines on class action settlements — what are they? And Johnson & Johnson made a last-minute switch of its legal team in a talc retrial that began this week.

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