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 in MDL 3060: In Re: Hair Relaxer Marketing Sales Practices and Products Liability Litigation....
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...
On November 10, 2022, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers approved the leadership team in the multidistrict social media addiction litigation filed against social media giant Meta, parent company of Facebook and Instagram, and a number of other social media...
On December 6, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Florida, Judge Robin L. Rosenberg granted summary judgment in favor of defendants Pfizer, Boehringer Ingelheim, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Sanofi, in MDL 2924 – In Re: Zantac (Ranitidine) Products...
On November 15, 2022, a Motion to Transfer was submitted to the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) by plaintiffs seeking to consolidate all pending hair product litigation cases filed against a number of defendants, including cosmetics giant...
