The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) will convene a hearing session in New York on December 1 to consider the consolidation and transfer of 11 lawsuits filed in six federal districts to the United States District Court for the District...
In a move that may herald the end of years of litigation over the drug industry’s role in the opioid overdose crisis that has resulted in over 500,000 deaths over the last two decades, on November 2, CVS and Walgreens - two of the nation’s largest pharmacy...
On August 2, 2022, the U.S. Senate passed the Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act. The Act was signed into law by President Joseph Biden on August 10, 2022. The PACT Act includes the Camp Lejeune Justice...
On September 19, 2022, oral argument was held before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia during which attorneys for talc injury victims urged the Court to allow their clients to pursue their claims against Johnson & Johnson maintaining their...
On August 20, 2022, Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, asked the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to consolidate a number of social media addiction lawsuits filed by plaintiffs who have targeted the company, alleging they have...
On August 26, Judge Jeffrey J. Graham of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Indiana ruled that the bankruptcy of 3M’s subsidiary Aearo Technologies did not halt the earplug litigation cases pending against the parent company, and denied Aearo’s...
A hearing is scheduled for September 29 before the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) to rule on a motion to consolidate 28 social media addiction lawsuits filed against a number of defendants, including Meta Platforms, Inc., the parent company of...
On August 4, 2022, the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) consolidated claims related to the use of the Gardasil vaccine before Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. Manufactured by Merck...
On August 10, President Biden signed into law the bipartisan Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring Our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics (PACT) Act designed to expand Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) benefits and health care for veterans exposed to...
At a July 27 hearing in Pensacola, FL, U.S. District Court Judge M. Casey Rodgers expressed concerns regarding 3M’s decision to resolve the more than 230,000 lawsuits pending against it by putting its Aearo Technologies division into bankruptcy, in what appears to be...
