Plaintiff’s lawyers who allege that baby powder caused a woman’s mesothelioma have voluntarily dismissed their case against Johnson & Johnson less than a month before a scheduled trial.

In the case—which would have been the third of its kind to go to trial—the plaintiff linked the New Jersey conglomerate’s ubiquitous product to mesothelioma, a deadly form of lung cancer. The first trial ended last November in a defense verdict in Los Angeles Superior Court, and a second trial began last month in Middlesex County, New Jersey, Superior Court.

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