Civil Litigation
Oct. 23, 2017
Judge overturns $417M jury verdict in talc cancer trial
The judge agreed that the jury wrongly determined malice based on internal company documents and engaged in misconduct.
Judge Maren Nelson
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles judge has rejected a bellwether jury’s $417 million baby powder liability verdict against Johnson & Johnson and granted the company a new trial.
Superior Court Judge Maren Nelson granted Proskauer Rose LLP defense motions for new trial and judgment notwithstanding the verdict in a 70-page tentative ruling issued late Friday that largely rejected the jury’s findings as excessive and based on insufficie...
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