Welcome to Law.com's Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys.

This week: There will be many plaintiffs' lawyers at this week's hearing, and some are against dismissal of the second Johnson & Johnson talc bankruptcy. What's excluded from 3M's $12.5 billion settlement over contaminated drinking water? Find out who is representing Ford in a class action over alleged defects in its E-Series "Cutaway" trucks.