Johnson & Johnson has lost a last-ditch attempt to delay the next talcum powder trial and get lawsuits brought by more than 1,000 women kicked out of Missouri’s state courts.
The Missouri Supreme Court’s Tuesday opinion denied a petition for writ of prohibition in which Johnson & Johnson asked to delay the Feb. 6 trial, and five additional trials in 2017, on the ground that Missouri’s state courts have no specific personal jurisdiction over claims brought by about 1,350 of the 1,410 plaintiffs who don’t live in Missouri.
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