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Critical Mass by Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: A New Law.com Report Finds Lawyers Leading MDLs Are Getting Younger. A Hearing Begins Today Involving Potential Contempt Against Two Ex-Girardi Keese Partners.

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Critical Mass by Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: 2021 Could Be a Lackluster Year for MDLs. Problems Re-Surface in TikTok Privacy Settlement.

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Critical Mass by Law.com's Ellen Bardash: Pharmacies Found Liable In First Opioid Crisis Verdict, Monsanto Blocked On One Roundup Appeal While Arguing Another.

Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. Three major pharmacy chains have been…
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Critical Mass by Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: In 1st Jury Trial Over Opioid Crisis, What Will Verdict Be? Lawsuits Against Erika Girardi Are Now in Two States.

Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys. The first jury trial over the opioid…
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Critical Mass by Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: The Oklahoma Supreme Court Reversed A $465M Opioid Judgment. And Lawsuits Are Soaring Over Astroworld's Concert Catastrophe.

The state's highest court refused to expand Oklahoma's public nuisance law into the "newest fictional shape-shifting monster." Nearly 30 lawsuits have been filed over deaths, injuries and economic damages associated with the Travis Scott concert on Nov. 5.
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Critical Mass by Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: Bankruptcy Battle Begins Tomorrow Over Talc Lawsuits. California Judge Finds Opioid Companies Did Not Create a Public Nuisance

A bankruptcy judge has set two days of hearings on whether to grant an injunction that would halt lawsuits over Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder. A tentative decision on Monday found a group of California governments failed to distinguish legitimate reasons to prescribe opioids from illegal uses. And find out who SoClean hired to represent it in lawsuits over its CPAP cleaning devices.
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Critical Mass by Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: A Judge Dismissed a Juror in an Opioid Trial For Bringing Research into the Cleveland Courtroom. A Law School Center Asks: Should MDLs Have Their Own Rules?

A juror in the high-profile opioid trial in Cleveland arrived in court with research from home, but U.S. District Judge Dan Polster still denied a mistrial motion. GMU's Antonin Scalia Law School delved into the debate over rules for multidistrict litigation. And find out which firm got retained to represent the family of a man shot by a security guard while at a Lowe's parking lot in Oregon.
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Critical Mass by Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: Today's Agenda in Bankruptcy Court: An Automatic Stay on Talc Lawsuits. A Referee Recommends Sanctions in NY Opioid Trial.

The future of lawsuits over Johnson & Johnson's baby powder now hinge on a bankruptcy proceeding, and the first hearing is today.
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Critical Mass by Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: Bayer Beats Back Big Verdicts in a New Round of Roundup Trials. MDL Judges Are Coming Up With Innovative Ways to Manage Burgeoning Caseloads.

Bayer is facing Roundup trials in California, the first of which ended in a defense verdict. And as a federal rules committee reviews possible amendments to multidistrict litigation, some judges are paving their own paths.
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Critical Mass by Law.com's Amanda Bronstad: Lawsuits Over Montana Train Crash Rail Against Both Amtrak and BNSF. Johnson & Johnson's Talc Tally Is Now Four Verdicts in a Row

At least five lawsuits have been filed over the Sept. 25 derailment of an Amtrak train in Montana. And after a defense verdict in a Georgia talc trial, could jurors have a different view of science coming out of the pandemic?
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