{"id":156960,"date":"2026-07-16T07:01:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=156960"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:01:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T15:01:50","slug":"stunning-turn-of-events-johnson-johnson-asks-judge-to-order-potential-dismissal-of-all-67000-talc-lawsuits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/07\/16\/stunning-turn-of-events-johnson-johnson-asks-judge-to-order-potential-dismissal-of-all-67000-talc-lawsuits\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Stunning Turn of Events’: Johnson & Johnson Asks Judge to Order Potential Dismissal of All 67,000 Talc Lawsuits"},"content":{"rendered":"

Johnson & Johnson, in a motion for order to show cause, insisted that lead plaintiffs’ counsel in the talc multidistrict litigation withdrew their two “marquee” specific causation experts after they acknowledged other risk factors impacting women in six bellwether cases\u2014and that most ovarian cancers are idiopathic.<\/p>\n

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Johnson & Johnson, in a motion for order to show cause, insisted that lead plaintiffs’ counsel in the talc multidistrict litigation withdrew their two “marquee” specific causation experts after they acknowledged other risk factors impacting women in six bellwether cases\u2014and that most ovarian cancers are idiopathic.<\/p>\n

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Johnson & Johnson, in a motion for order to show cause, insisted that lead plaintiffs’ counsel in the talc multidistrict litigation withdrew their two “marquee” specific causation experts after they acknowledged other risk factors impacting women in six bellwether cases\u2014and that most ovarian cancers are idiopathic. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Johnson & Johnson, in a motion for order […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/legal-news-M5ZNpC.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156968,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156960\/revisions\/156968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}