Your daily ration of civil justice rationing
Following a record verdict in a trial in Missouri, litigation against Johnson & Johnson over its talcum powder ended in a mistrial in California. “A state judge in Pasadena, California, declared a mistrial Monday after jurors deadlocked on… Read More
Tens of thousands of cases related to illness and death from asbestos exposure could be adjudicated in Maryland based on an appeal before the state’s highest court. “Maryland’s highest court is weighing whether to give workers who were… Read More
The NCM’s Sara Warner is noting how the judicial system in one Virginia city is using maritime law – the “laws of the sea” – to bypass that old asbestos litigation debate over state law vs. federal law…. Read More
