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By Amanda Bronstad | June 6, 2018
Johnson & Johnson “rigged the tests” to avoid conceding that its baby powder contained asbestos, causing 22 women to get ovarian cancer, plaintiffs lawyer Mark Lanier told a St. Louis jury in opening statements on Wednesday in the most high-volume talcum powder trial to date.
By Jenna Greene | May 31, 2018
A would-be class action against poultry giant Foster Farms and the American Humane Association questions what it means to raise an animal “humanely” for slaughter.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 24, 2018
A California jury has awarded $25.75 million to a woman diagnosed with mesothelioma due to asbestos exposure from using Johnson & Johnson's baby powder thousands of times.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 18, 2018
The trial against Johnson & Johnson claims an attorney's lifetime use of its baby powder caused her to get one of the deadliest forms of cancer.
By Catherine Wilson | May 16, 2018
Two San Francisco Bay Area attorneys are leading the plaintiffs team, and a Florida attorney is coordinating litigation for iPhone users.
By Sue Reisinger | May 14, 2018
“This is highly unusual,” said one law professor who has been focusing his lessons around ZTE. “I've never heard of a politician trying to change [a plea deal] before.”
By Amanda Bronstad | May 4, 2018
The pitches for lead plaintiffs counsel pit Steve Berman and a few lawyers at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro against a 40-lawyer coalition led by Joseph Cotchett, of Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, and Laurence King of Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 3, 2018
A LA judge has tentatively cleared the way for a Johnson & Johnson motion to toss out about 100 out-of-state plaintiffs from the coordinated talcum powder litigation in California in light of the U.S. Supreme Court's jurisdictional decision last year in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court of California.
By Samantha Joseph | May 2, 2018
Plaintiffs are asking the court to find gross negligence and breach of contract over FPL's monthly "storm surcharge."
By John Schneider | April 30, 2018
A multi-billion dollar verdict involving breaches of fiduciary duty scores the top award in the 2017 list by NLJ-affiliate VerdictSearch.
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