Welcome to Critical MassLaw.com’s weekly briefing on class actions and mass torts. Here’s what’s happening: Merck made its case for federal preemption before the U.S. Supreme Court. fee fight has erupted in the Pinnacle hip implant MDL. And find out where Johnson & Johnson will face the first talc trials of 2019.

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