{"id":73,"date":"2017-02-15T16:52:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T16:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinsonfirm.law\/?p=73"},"modified":"2025-12-10T18:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:44:20","slug":"jjs-2400-talcum-lawsuits-transfer-request-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinsonfirm.law\/index.php\/2017\/02\/15\/jjs-2400-talcum-lawsuits-transfer-request-dismissed\/","title":{"rendered":"J&#038;J\u2019s 2,400 Talcum Lawsuits Transfer Request Dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 dir=\"ltr\">On May 09, 2019, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika in Wilmington dismissed J&amp;J\u2019s request to transfer 2,400\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250418105955\/https:\/\/www.neuralit.com\/mass-torts\/miscellaneous-agents\/talcum\"><u>Talcum<\/u><\/a>\u00a0lawsuits to a federal court in Delaware. J&amp;J had argued for the transfer last month. J&amp;J wants to appeal for legal rights of its bankrupt talc supplier, Imerys Talc America Inc., to converge the baby powder suits before Noreika in hopes of quicker resolutions of claims that the talc-based product causes cancer.<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">According to the judge, J&amp;J neither filed for bankruptcy nor established its financial distress. J&amp;J had made the request under the legal procedure that allows personal injury tort and wrongful death claims to be transferred to the district court in the district where the bankruptcy case was filed.<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">J&amp;J has been facing 14,000 talcum powder lawsuits, each raising a common allegation that asbestos exposure from the company\u2019s talc-based products causes ovarian cancer or mesothelioma. Hon. Freda L. Wolfson, U.S.D.J.\/ Hon. Lois H. Goodman, U.S.M.J. overlooks J&amp;J\u2019s talcum powder multidistrict litigation (MDL No. 2738; In Re: Johnson &amp; Johnson Talcum Powder Products Marketing, Sales Practices, and Products Liability Litigation) in the District of New Jersey.<\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"post_meta post_meta_single\"><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 09, 2019, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika in Wilmington dismissed J&amp;J\u2019s request to transfer 2,400\u00a0Talcum\u00a0lawsuits to a federal court in Delaware. J&amp;J had argued for the transfer last month. J&amp;J wants to appeal for legal rights of its bankrupt talc supplier, Imerys Talc&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,16,35],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-jj","tag-law","tag-talcum-lawsuits"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/robinsonfirm.law\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/img-2025-12-10-%EC%98%A4%ED%9B%84-6.31.57.jpg?fit=827%2C467&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinsonfirm.law\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinsonfirm.law\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinsonfirm.law\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinsonfirm.law\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinsonfirm.law\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robinsonfirm.law\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"https:\/\/robinsonfirm.law\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/1327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinsonfirm.law\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robinsonfirm.law\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinsonfirm.law\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robinsonfirm.law\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}