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J&J: New evidence shows key asbestos witness is a liar
TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) - Johnson & Johnson has renewed its legal assault on a doctor who helped kickstart litigation over talcum powder by publishing a study that falsely claimed 33 cancer patients had no exposure to asbestos other than talc.
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Destruction of asbestos evidence postponed; New companies join effort to preserve it
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - The planned deletion of asbestos cases is on hold, as companies that say they need that evidence to defend themselves have struck an agreement.
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'Pillsbury Doughboy' loses talc case; No one ever tested his house for asbestos
LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - A California jury recently rejected claims Johnson’s Baby Powder caused a man’s cancer, despite hair-raising testimony that talc is contaminated with deadly asbestos fibers and the plaintiff’s mother covered him with so much of it that “he would look like the Pillsbury Doughboy.”
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Judge refuses 'do-over' in J&J's failed $9B talc settlement
HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) - The Houston bankruptcy judge who denied Johnson & Johnson's $9 billion plan to settle tens of thousands of ovarian cancer claims has now rejected calls from those affected to reconsider.
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Court fight starts over whether key asbestos evidence will be gone forever
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Companies facing asbestos lawsuits are off to court to prevent the destruction of evidence they say is needed to defend themselves.
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Asbestos evidence could soon vanish, with defendants alleging it's part of a cover-up
WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - The planned destruction of evidence in asbestos cases would keep defendants from finding fraud by plaintiff lawyers, defendants say, as a group of state attorneys general have joined their fight to preserve it.
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Carolina lawyer tasked with mining for asbestos money hit with $1.3M U.K. penalty
A U.K. court has ordered South Carolina attorney Peter Protopapas to pay 1 million British pounds – about $1.3 million at current exchange rates -- by the end of the month to compensate a foreign company that complained he tried to illegally seize control of it to collect money for U.S. asbestos plaintiffs.
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$9B for ovarian cancer claims rejected by judge; J&J heads back to court
HOUSTON (Legal Newsline) - A "heavily negotiated" plan to end tens of thousands of ovarian cancer claims with a $9 billion fund that has "significant support" can't be confirmed, a Houston bankruptcy judge has ruled.
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Judge finds no racketeering enterprise in asbestos cases brought by Simmons Hanly
CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) - The prominent asbestos law firm Simmons Hanly Conroy has defeated accusations that it cheated its way to billions of dollars for its clients.
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Beasley Allen fights new votes to approve J&J's $9B talc bankruptcy
HOUSTON - Lawyers opposing a $9 billion plan that keeps ovarian cancer lawsuits against Johnson & Johnson out of the hands of juries and judges are upset other firms have clients now voting to approve it.
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As J&J's talc trial goes on, Beasley Allen wants the whole thing moved to a different court
HOUSTON - As a Houston federal bankruptcy judge conducts a lengthy trial over whether to approve Johnson & Johnson's plan to effectively settle tens of thousands of ovarian cancer claims, lawyers against that strategy are fighting to move the issue to a different court.
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With numbers not on its side, Beasley Allen wants new client vote on J&J's $9B talc fund
HOUSTON - The two law firms opposing Johnson & Johnson's massive talcum powder settlement that would give $9 billion to women blaming their ovarian cancer on Baby Powder wants a new vote.
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J&J bashes Beasley Allen as it seeks approval of $9B talc plan
HOUSTON - Johnson & Johnson takes aim at plaintiffs attorneys opposing its massive settlement of cancer claims related to Baby Powder, basically calling them hypocrites whose lone standard is how much money they will make for themselves.
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Canadian companies plead with Carolina high court to stop asbestos judge
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Legal Newsline) - Two portraits of Canadian companies were painted Tuesday as the South Carolina Supreme Court was asked to decide what, if any, limits there are on the controversial measures taken by the state's asbestos judge.
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Lawyers supporting J&J's $9B talc settlement seek protection from rival firms
HOUSTON - Law firms that want Johnson & Johnson's massive talc bankruptcy plan approved object to the nature of a probe by lawyers who want it rejected, as the fight for votes continues ahead of a key hearing.
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Feds, lawyers and insurers among critics of J&J's massive talc settlement
HOUSTON - Some insurers and personal injury lawyers have found themselves in a rare position - allied in court.
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Talc lawyers fighting J&J's $9B plan get to grill lawyer holding 1,500 key votes
HOUSTON - A court-ordered deposition of a lawyer next week should produce plenty of fireworks, as he explains why 1,500 of his clients suing Johnson & Johnson changed their minds on whether to accept the company's massive settlement proposal.
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'Nuclear option': Canadian companies ask Carolina Supreme Court to stop asbestos judge
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Legal Newsline) - The South Carolina Supreme Court soon will decide whether a judge’s increasingly aggressive view of her authority extends to foreign companies that never did business in the state.
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J&J appeals now-$39M Carolina talc verdict, says trial judge was hostile
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Legal Newsline) - South Carolina's asbestos judge took more than $16 million off of Johnson & Johnson's share of a huge talcum powder verdict, but that isn't stopping the company from seeking total relief from the state's appeals courts.
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Diamond company fights being dragged into controversial Carolina asbestos court
COLUMBIA, S.C. (Legal Newsline) - The diamond-trading giant De Beers has filed a scathing motion in South Carolina court accusing a lawyer suing it in the name of another U.K. firm of acting without authority and possibly in collusion with local plaintiff lawyers.