Law 360

MARCH 15, 2024

An Illinois jury has awarded $60 million to the mother of an infant who died after using Mead Johnson's Enfamil formula, a loss for the company in the first of hundreds of suits to go to trial alleging certain cow's milk-based formulas cause a fatal illness in premature infants.

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MARCH 1, 2024

Johnson & Johnson's baby powder was the 'spark' that caused the cancer that killed a Miami anesthesiologist, an attorney for her widower told jurors Friday as he urged them to punish the company for hiding the product's cancer links from consumers.

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Law 360

MARCH 25, 2024

Johnson & Johnson's vice president of litigation said on Monday he was "utterly shocked and appalled" upon learning an attorney who served as the company's outside counsel was working with its adversary Beasley Allen Law Firm and one of its attorneys in litigation over the alleged link between the company's talcum powder products and ovarian cancer. (..)

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JURIST

JANUARY 18, 2022

Endo International PLC (Endo) Tuesday agreed to pay $65 million to settle all Florida governmental opioid-related cases and claims, preventing pending claims against the specialty pharmaceutical company from going to trial. Pharmaceutical companies continue to face ongoing backlash through numerous lawsuits stemming from the opioid crisis.

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Law 360

JULY 28, 2023

A New Jersey bankruptcy judge dismissed the Chapter 11 case of Johnson & Johnson's talc unit Friday, saying the company's second attempt at addressing thousands of talc injury claims didn't meet the standards for financial distress.

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JURIST

JUNE 18, 2022

According to the company, the jury reached a unanimous verdict. Johnson’s [one of the plaintiffs] cancer. While we have great sympathy for Mr. Johnson, the jury has weighed the evidence from both sides in this case and concluded that Roundup is not responsible for his injuries.

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JURIST

JUNE 16, 2022

Elon Musk, SpaceX, and Tesla Thursday were sued for $258 billion by Dogecoin investor Keith Johnson. Johnson accused Musk of orchestrating a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme, also known as a Ponzi scheme. According to Johnson, this caused the crypto’s price to fluctuate.

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JURIST

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The Oklahoma Supreme Court reversed Tuesday a $465 million verdict against Johnson & Johnson (J&J) for public nuisance through its prescription opioid marketing campaign in the state. This plan appropriated money to 21 government programs to combat opioid abuse statewide.

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JURIST

JANUARY 6, 2022

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday renewed a lawsuit against twenty-one medical equipment and pharmaceutical companies over allegations that their contracts with Iraq’s health ministry aided in funding terrorism that ultimately led to the death of American soldiers during the Iraq War.

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JURIST

MAY 25, 2022

A civil trial between the Attorney Generals office and the companies commenced in April where the State “alleged the manufacturers helped fuel the opioid epidemic in West Virginia by engaging in strategic campaigns to deceive prescribers and misrepresent the risks and benefits of opioid painkillers.”

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Law 360

AUGUST 11, 2023

A New Jersey bankruptcy judge entered the dismissal of the second Chapter 11 case of Johnson & Johnson's talc unit on Friday, but rejected the talc claimants' request to prohibit the company from making future bankruptcy filings for six months.

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Intelligize Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Executives at pharmaceutical companies and drugstore chains likely found themselves searching for solutions to soothe their own headaches and help them sleep at night after getting news last month that the Food and Drug Administration determined a common ingredient in popular over-the-counter cold medications doesn’t work.

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HowAppealing

JUNE 2, 2021

“Supreme Court will not take up Johnson & Johnson challenge of $2.1 billion cancer case award”: Robert Barnes has this article in today’s edition of The Washington Post. billion judgment involving 20 women who alleged talcum powder caused cancer.”

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Law 360

JUNE 27, 2023

Investors suing Johnson & Johnson in a securities class action hit back at the company's renewed efforts to subpoena communications between certain law firms and media outlets about the company's talcum powder products, arguing the new evidence J&J provided in a motion to reconsider is not relevant.

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Law 360

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Beasley Allen Law Firm and one of its veteran plaintiffs' attorneys have hit back at Johnson & Johnson's attempt to disqualify them from multidistrict litigation over the alleged link between the company's talcum powder products and ovarian cancer, denying that they collected privileged information from a former J&J attorney.

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Law 360

JUNE 5, 2023

Johnson & Johnson asked a New Jersey federal court Friday for a second shot at subpoenaing several law firms' communications with media outlets around the company's talcum powder products, arguing a federal magistrate judge who previously quashed the subpoenas did so in error.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

A Florida federal judge on Wednesday ordered a Taiwanese company to stop distributing alleged infringing canine implants, ruling that a jury previously found that unlicensed similar models had violated the patent of a Johnson & Johnson unit and that continued sales are causing irreparable harm.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A Florida judge on Thursday said decades-old advertisements for Johnson & Johnson baby powder are relevant to potential punitive damages in a talc trial and he would not shield jurors from seeing them, but he scolded the company for not opting for a two-part trial on liability and punitive damages.

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Law 360

AUGUST 18, 2023

that required the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary to pay more than $194 million in back royalties to Alkermes Pharma Ireland Ltd., ending a legal dispute over licensing agreements between the companies. A New York federal judge on Friday confirmed an unopposed arbitration award against Janssen Pharmaceutical N.V.

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Law 360

JULY 19, 2022

Johnson & Johnson wants an Ohio federal court to toss opioid claims made against the company by a host of New York municipalities, saying a change to an Empire State law bars those allegations.

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The Fashion Law

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Johnson appear to have put their branding differences aside for the time being, with the American multinational consumer packaged goods and chemicals company withdrawing its opposition to one of Off-White’s pending trademark applications for registration. Johnson filed a motion with the U.S. Johnson’s OFF! Johnson’s OFF!

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The Crime Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The nation’s three major drug distributors and Johnson & Johnson have agreed to settle opioid claims for up to $665 million with Native American tribes who have claimed they were harmed by decades of exposure to highly addictive painkillers, reports the Washington Post. .

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Above The Law

JUNE 1, 2021

Fox News ] * Johnson & Johnson is asking the Supreme Court to hear an ovarian cancer case that resulted in a $2 billion judgment against the company. [ That's one expensive bird. Detroit Free Press ] * Unvaccinated workers at a Houston hospital are suing over their employer's vaccination mandate. Chicago Tribune ].

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Law 360

AUGUST 2, 2023

Talc claimants who obtained dismissal of Johnson & Johnson's talc unit's bankruptcy case last week want to prohibit the company from filing a third Chapter 11 case for six months, a move the company said would endanger any potential talc claim settlements.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 21, 2021

A North Carolina bankruptcy judge is pondering moving the Chapter 11 case of the Johnson & Johnson spinoff holding the company's talc liability to New Jersey or Delaware, saying his court may not be the best place to decide if the bankruptcy can stop talc suits against the parent company.

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Law 360

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Johnson & Johnson urged a New Jersey state appeals court Wednesday to overturn a $223.8 million judgment for cancer patients who alleged that the company's asbestos-tainted talcum powder caused their illness, arguing the court had previously found the patients' experts to be unreliable in a similar case.

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Law 360

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The largest deal of the third quarter came by way of Johnson & Johnson's August split-off of Kenvue Inc., which valued the roughly 80% stake in the consumer health company at $42.2 billion, superseding the next deal in line by over $12 billion, a Law360 review of Dealogic data shows.

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Law 360

JULY 28, 2023

antitrust enforcers have approached companies' cooperative environmental, social and corporate governance efforts highlights America's comparatively harsh stance, contributing to a difficult compliance climate for international businesses, say attorneys at Steptoe & Johnson. A comparison between how EU and U.S.

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Law 360

APRIL 18, 2022

Maynard Cooper & Gale PC has added a litigator with a track record representing companies such as Johnson & Johnson and Target Corp. as a shareholder in its Birmingham, Alabama, office.

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Law 360

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Third Circuit’s recent dismissal of Johnson & Johnson’s talc unit Chapter 11 case hints at an emerging pattern of judicial hostility toward the so-called Texas two-step, creating challenges for companies attempting to divorce legal liabilities from healthy operating assets prior to a bankruptcy filing, say Ryan Dahl and Jeramy Webb at Ropes & Gray. (..)

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Law 360

APRIL 25, 2023

Johnson & Johnson will get a Chancery Court hearing June 5 on a motion to disqualify Selendy Gay Elsberg PLLC from representing a senior executive who founded a robotic assisted surgery company acquired for $3.4 billion in 2019, in a wide-ranging, multibillion-dollar battle with Fortis Advisors.

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Law 360

MAY 11, 2023

Fortis Advisors LLC is urging the Delaware Chancery Court to reject Johnson & Johnson's call to disqualify Selendy Gay Elsberg PLLC from representing the founder of a robotic assisted surgery company acquired by a J&J subsidiary, accusing J&J of trying to create "an uneven playing field" in litigation over the merger.

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Law 360

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Department of Justice’s use of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act to prosecute JPMorgan employees for spoofing shows that federal agencies are more willing to target dated conduct related to systemic fraud, and is a reminder of steps companies can take to mitigate RICO conspiracy investigations, say attorneys at Steptoe & Johnson. (..)

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Law 360

JANUARY 17, 2024

Former HSBC foreign currency trading executive Mark Johnson on Wednesday urged a New York federal judge to vacate his conviction for allegedly defrauding a Scottish oil and gas company in a $3.5 billion currency exchange deal, in light of the U.S.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Orange County, California Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson has ruled that state and city governments hadn’t proven the pharmaceutical companies used deceptive marketing to increase unnecessary opioid prescriptions and create a public nuisance, reports the Associated Press.

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LegalReader

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

According to Common Dreams, the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act would prohibit companies from enforcing mandatory arbitration agreements. Hank Johnson (D-GA) said ordinary people should not be. In his bid to reintroduce the FAIR Act, Rep.

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NewmanFerraraLLP

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Johnson shielded Weston Solutions Inc. According to Johnson’s decision, “plaintiffs have not established a genuine issue of material fact regarding whether Weston possessed, owned, or controlled the water impounded in the Gold King Mine.” .” In a decision, Chief U.S. District Judge William P.

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