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Attorneys Probing 'Every Potential Avenue' Over Norfolk Southern Accident

National law firms like Simmons Hanley Conroy and Motley Rice descended this week on East Palestine, Ohio, where a freight train derailed earlier this month, exposing residents to hazardous chemicals. Some have already filed class actions against train operator Norfolk Southern Corp.
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The Recorder

Why Bayer's New Roundup Appeal Is Different: 'Monsanto Is a Very Aggressive Litigator'

Lead plaintiffs lawyers in the Roundup multidistrict litigation called Bayer's Feb. 8 petition before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit an "orchestrated" appeal.
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New Jersey Law Journal

'Pendulum Has Swung': Talc Bankruptcy Isn't Over, But Time Is Ticking

U.S. Chief Bankruptcy Judge Michael Kaplan said at a Tuesday hearing that Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management's rehearing petition would delay any potential mandate that would prompt him to dismiss the Chapter 11 case.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Controversial 'Texas Two-Step' Netted Jones Day $107 Million Before 3rd Circuit Rebuke

Jones Day partner Gregory Gordon employed the tactic in four large Chapter 11s prior to a late January ruling against Johnson & Johnson affiliate LTL Management.
3 minute read

Law.com

Bayer Takes Its Roundup Fight to Third Circuit

Despite losing several appeals, Bayer petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday to reverse a Roundup ruling on federal preemption.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

'Some Women Have Died': Philadelphia Talc Plaintiffs Lawyers Prep to Move Cases After J&J Unit's Bankruptcy Dismissal

"We are eager to be able to get our cases back on the trial list in Philadelphia," said Nancy Winkler, a partner with Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck who serves as local counsel in a number of talc cases in Philadelphia.
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Law.com

With Talc Bankruptcy Out, How Soon Could Trials Against Johnson & Johnson Restart?

Plaintiffs lawyers prepped for talc trials soon after Monday's decision by the Third Circuit dismissing the J&J bankruptcy, but they might have to wait a bit longer.
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Law.com

In 'Landmark' Win for Talc Plaintiffs, Third Circuit Dismisses Johnson & Johnson Unit's Bankruptcy

On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit reversed a bankruptcy judge's decision, concluding that Johnson & Johnson subsidiary LTL Management was not in financial distress at the time it filed its Chapter 11 case in 2021.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Judicial Hellhole? Southern Lawyers Divided Over Georgia's Designation

"I was a judge for 11 years, and in those 11 years 90% of the med-mals resulted in defense verdicts," said plaintiff attorney Dax Lopez of DelCampo Grayson Lopez. "That is not unusual, and I think we sort of lose sight of that."
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Daily Report Online

Keep Georgia No. 1 by Improving the Lawsuit Climate and Reducing the Tort Tax

In its most recent Lawsuit Climate Survey, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform (ILR) ranked Georgia 41st out of the 50 states. This is Georgia's worst-ever ranking since ILR first conducted this survey in 2002.
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