A federal judge has rejected Johnson & Johnson’s efforts to remove to federal court a lawsuit that is set to be the first talc-related case to come before a Philadelphia jury.

U.S. District Judge Mark Kearney of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on Tuesday remanded the case Kleiner v. Rite Aid to the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, denying arguments from the pharmaceutical giant that the case needed to be sent to bankruptcy court in Delaware.

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