Welcome to Critical Mass, Law.com’s weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. After a New Jersey judge tossed the closing argument of its lawyer in a talc trial, Johnson & Johnson is back in court with a new legal team. More than 1,000 lawsuits over Viagra could die on the vine after the judge tossed the plaintiffs’ experts. How Bristol-Myers used a “blow provision” to back out of a $55 million class action settlement.
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Diane Sullivan of Weil, Gotshal & Manges. Courtesy photo