A battle over legal fees and costs has prompted three lawyers to withdraw from the plaintiffs leadership team in the multidistrict litigation over power morcellators made by Johnson & Johnson’s Ethicon Inc.

After a hearing on Wednesday before a federal judge in Kansas, two plaintiffs lawyersRebecca King, an attorney at Houston’s Tracey & Fox, and François Blaudeau, of counsel at Heninger Garrison Davis in Birminghamresigned from the 20-person plaintiffs steering committee, according to co-lead counsel Paul Pennock.

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