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Johnson and Johnson bankruptcy strategy rejected in talcum powder lawsuit

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The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Monday ruled against Johnson and Johnson’s (J&J) attempt to resolve its multi-billion dollar litigation over claims that its talcum-based powders were carcinogenic. The company then bestows its assets on one and its tort liability on the other.

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How to Prove Negligence After a Texas Car Crash

LegalReader

Texas is known as a “tort state.” This means that in order to receive a settlement, you must prove that someone else was to blame.

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Guest Post: Third-Party Litigation Funding: Disclosure to Courts, Congress, and the Executive

Patently O

Stroud is General Counsel at Unified Patents – an organization often adverse to litigation-funded entities. [1] litigation finance boom of the past 20 years—as has been widely reported, private equity now undergirds huge swaths of U.S. Guest post by Jonathan Stroud. Patent assertion finance today is a multibillion-dollar business. [2]

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Spooky Torts: The 2022 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. However, my students and I often discuss the remarkably wide range of torts that comes with All Hallow’s Eve.

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Spooky Torts: The 2021 List of Litigation Horrors

JonathanTurley

Here is my annual list of Halloween torts and crimes. Halloween has everything for a torts-filled holiday: battery, trespass, defamation, nuisance, product liability and more. Steven Novak, an artist from Dallas, Texas, believes that Halloween should be a bit more than a traditional plastic pumpkin and a smiling ghost.

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Corporate Bankruptcies Balloon in Early 2023

Intelligize Blog

The UK-based theater chain began Chapter 11 proceedings in Texas in September and announced in January that it would close 39 Regal Cinemas theaters across the United States. However, the bankruptcy story generating the most interest in the business and legal worlds now may be Johnson & Johnson’s attempt to pull off a “ Texas Two-Step.”

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Starting a Paralegal Career Without a Paralegal Certificate

Paralegal Bootcamp

Jessie is a board certified trial paralegal in Texas. She’s a litigation paralegal at Heygood, Orr & Pearson (no relation to me). Litigation Paralegal Boot Camp Are you still waiting for on-the-job training that takes you through each phase of a litigation case and shows you what you can do to support your attorneys?