On March 22, 2023, plaintiff Kimberly Eaton filed a brief with the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) seeking to consolidate and transfer all currently filed Tepezza litigation to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California....
On February 21, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, involving Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 in which the family of Nohemi Gonzalez sued Google, Inc. The family alleges that Google subsidiary, YouTube, was responsible for...
On Wednesday, March 22, Johnson & Johnson’s motion to have the full U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit rehear its subsidiary, LTL Management LLC’s bankruptcy case was denied, related to the 38,000 filed talcum litigation cases. The decision...
On March 3, 2023, Judge Mary M. Rowland, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, appointed a number of attorneys to leadership positions for the hair product litigation cases in MDL 3060: In Re: Hair Relaxer Marketing Sales...
On January 26, a few weeks after a U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Florida granted the defendants’ Motion for Summary Judgment in MDL 2924 (In Re: Zantac [Ranitidine] Products Liability Litigation), New York’s Litigation Coordinating Panel granted...
On January 30, 2023, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing of Johnson & Johnson (J&J) subsidiary LTL Management, LLC, overturning U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan’s 2022 ruling and dealing a potential setback to the...
A class action complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on December 28, 2022 against The Coca-Cola Company, claiming that the major beverage producer’s Simply Orange juice brand contains toxic levels of per- and...
The recall of a number of dry shampoo products in recent months has sparked the filing of several dry shampoo class action lawsuits against manufacturers of the personal care products by plaintiffs claiming the shampoos contain dangerously high levels of benzene, a...
On December 14, 2022, U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis approved the leadership team in the multidistrict Exatech orthopedic litigation filed against Exactech, manufacturer of the Optetrak, Truliant and Connexion GXL knee replacement systems. Plaintiffs allege...
On November 17, 2022, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote approved the leadership team in the multidistrict acetaminophen litigation filed against Johnson & Johnson and several other retailers, including Costco, Walmart, Rite Aid and Walgreen’s. Plaintiffs in a...
