Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys.
This week: The judge who oversaw Johnson & Johnson‘s talc bankruptcies, Michael Kaplan, wrote a Jan. 10 letter to suggest changing a rule that prohibits bankruptcy judges from appointing special masters. An Oregon jury awarded more than $62 million, which could balloon to $85 million, to nine wildfire survivors in a rare class trial. Find out who got appointed to lead class actions alleging racial discrimination against Navy Federal Credit Union.
