Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys.
This week: Lawyers at a closely watched bankruptcy hearing described “wedges driven in the plaintiffs’ bar” and “toxicity and personality conflicts” in the weeks before Johnson & Johnson’s talc bankruptcy filing. The U.S. Supreme Court took up a case called Laboratory Corp. of America v. Luke Davis, which could address whether uninjured class members should exist at the certification stage. Find out which mass tort litigator jumped to Girard Sharp.