Among the areas at their firms most ripe for improvement, we’d bet most mass tort lawyers would have “claimant engagement” near the top of the list. As established mass tort law firms know, and as new mass tort firms quickly find out, engaging with claimants can be a...
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....
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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 September 19, 2022, oral argument was held before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia during which attorneys for talcum litigation injury victims urged the Court to allow their clients to pursue their claims against Johnson & Johnson maintaining...
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...
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...
