A talcum powder trial in Los Angeles ended with a bang on Monday––a $417 million bang, to be exact. But jurors almost didn’t hear the case at all.
On the first day of trial, Johnson & Johnson’s lawyers came out swinging, immediately calling for a mistrial after objecting several times to plaintiff attorney Allen Smith’s remarks during his opening statement.
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