A Louisiana state court has rejected efforts to have an asbestos cosmetic talcum powder case moved to a neighboring parish, overruling all defense venue exceptions and denying motions to strike the plaintiff’s amended petition. The Louisiana Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans overruled the challenges to jurisdiction in a draft judgment entered Jan. 11 after listening to testimony ...
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Lindsey Cheek
La. Court Grants Motion for Expedited Trial Date in Asbestos Talc Case
NEW ORLEANS –– A judge overseeing an asbestos talcum powder case has granted the plaintiffs’ motion for an expedited trial date over defense oppositions, placing the case on the November trial docket, sources told HarrisMartin.
Lindsey Cheek
Johnson & Johnson Loses Bid To Keep Asbestos-Talc Case In Federal Court
NEW ORLEANS — Technical deficiencies in a complaint are not evidence of improper joinder, and a woman will need discovery to flesh out her claims against a retailer she claims sold asbestos-tainted talc, a federal judge in Louisiana held in finding joinder proper and remanding the case on May 17 (Marilyn Rousseau v. Johnson & Johnson, et al., No. 18- ...
Lindsey Cheek
Louisiana Federal Judge Grants 30-Day Inquiry Into Contacts With State
NEW ORLEANS — Asbestos plaintiffs have not shown any connection between Rohm & Haas Chemicals LLC and Louisiana sufficient for jurisdiction purposes, but may yet if they can show that the company is responsible for asbestos at Weeks Island Morton Salt facility, a federal judge in the state held March 23 in granting jurisdictional discovery (Leech, et al. v. 3M. ...
Lindsey Cheek
J&J Oppose Consolidated Motion to Remand in 6 Louisiana Cases
NEWARK, N.J. –– Talcum powder defendants have opposed a consolidated motion to remand filed in six Louisiana cases pending in the multidistrict litigation proceedings, maintaining that the plaintiffs’ claims against an in-state defendant have “no reasonable possibility of success.
Lindsey Cheek
Talcum powder litigation update: nationwide and in Louisiana
In an article in the June 2016 issue of Louisiana Advocates, I discussed the history and status of talcum powder litigation.
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J&J Loses Remand Fight In NJ Talc MDL
Law360, New York (October 13, 2017, 6:49 PM EDT) -- A New Jersey federal judge ruled Thursday that a Louisiana woman’s lawsuit alleging Johnson & Johnson talcum powder products...
Lindsey Cheek
Ovarian Cancer Caused by Talcum Powder? Juries Say "Yes"
$72 Million Dollars. $55 Million Dollars. These are verdicts most of us have seen in recent headlines – and we paid attention, too. Why?
