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

This week: After Allen Smith came out in support of Johnson & Johnson’s talc bankruptcy, Beasley Allen sued him. Lead counsel in the multidistrict litigation over hair relaxers are asking a federal judge to reconsider her order limiting their proposed common benefit fees. Find out who Giant supermarkets retained in a class action alleging its branded orange soda contains FDA-banned brominated vegetable oil.