By Adolfo Pesquera | May 8, 2023
"The determinative question is whether the manufacturers' contacts with Texas, accomplished through direct and indirect control over instrumentalities and intermediaries, satisfy constitutional requisites to exercising specific personal jurisdiction. They do."
By Amanda Bronstad | May 3, 2023
At a Wednesday bankruptcy hearing, plaintiffs' lawyers raised concerns that Randi Ellis, whose re-appointment as the representative for future claims is pending, wasn't impartial anymore given her alleged involvement in preparing the second Chapter 11 case.
By Amanda Bronstad | May 1, 2023
On Monday, 3M attorney Paul Clement told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit that the government-contractor defense should have immunized his client from lawsuits over its combat earplugs.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 27, 2023
U.S. Magistrate Judge Valerie Figueredo, in New York, is set to decide whether plaintiffs' expert Dr. Jacqueline Moline must disclose the 33 individuals in her 2019 article, one of the first to link cosmetic talcum powder to mesothelioma.
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By Ellen Bardash | April 27, 2023
Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster decided that major claims passed the demand futility test.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 26, 2023
On Wednesday, Aimee Wagstaff told jurors in Clayton, Missouri, about Sharlean Gordon, who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2006 after years of spraying Roundup on her yard in Illinois.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 24, 2023
Trial opened on Monday in the first bellwether trial involving Juul's electronic cigarettes. Altria, which owns a 35% stake in Juul, is the sole defendant.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 21, 2023
U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, in New York, refused on Thursday to dismiss 72 lawsuits alleging taking Tylenol while pregnant increases the risks of children developing autism or ADHD.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 20, 2023
U.S. Bankruptcy Chief Judge Michael Kaplan on Thursday limited his preliminary injunction order to 60 days and allowed discovery to move ahead in pending talc cases against Johnson & Johnson.
By Amanda Bronstad | April 19, 2023
A hearing set to last at least two days began Wednesday in Indianapolis to determine whether a bankruptcy judge should dismiss the Chapter 11 case of 3M subsidiary Aearo Technologies, designed to resolve 235,000 lawsuits over combat earplugs.
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