January 13, 2025
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani was held in contempt for a second time, Johnson & Johnson's bankrupt spinoff called Brown Rudnick's bid to represent an official committee of talc claimants "an ethical violation," and the federal government objected to a $535 million settlement that bankrupt talc supplier Whittaker Clark & Daniels reached regarding talc claims in its New Jersey Chapter 11 case.
January 10, 2025
A group of attorneys representing talc claimants in Johnson & Johnson unit Red River Talc's Chapter 11 case has urged a Texas bankruptcy judge to sanction Morelli Law Firm PLLC's founding partner, Benedict Morelli, for allegedly failing to appear in person at a December hearing and falsely claiming to have resolved a dispute with the talc group.
January 09, 2025
Johnson & Johnson's bankrupt spin-off called Brown Rudnick's bid to represent an official committee of talc claimants "an ethical violation," telling a Texas bankruptcy judge that the law firm's previous work for a group trying to toss the case clashes with the committee's support for its Chapter 11 plan.
December 17, 2024
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to throw out nonconsensual third-party releases in opioid maker Purdue Pharma's Chapter 11 reverberated through the bankruptcy domain in unexpected ways this year, but it was just one among many major events to shape bankruptcy in 2024.
December 17, 2024
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday postponed the Chapter 11 plan confirmation hearing of Johnson & Johnson talc unit Red River Talc LLC until February, saying additional time was needed for parties to continue taking discovery over questions concerning the plan's provisions.
December 10, 2024
Beasley Allen has until Friday to provide a detailed accounting of what documents it has produced to Johnson & Johnson's latest liability spinoff, Red River Talc, a Texas bankruptcy judge said Tuesday in hopes of speeding up discovery in a dispute over how voting was conducted on the debtor's prepackaged Chapter 11 plan.
December 02, 2024
Holders of notes issued by 99 Cents Only will take a $297 million haircut, Beasley Allen dodged discovery sanctions in Johnson & Johnson's latest spinoff bankruptcy and a Mexican industrial equipment leasing group sought U.S. recognition for its reorganization. This is the week in bankruptcy.
November 26, 2024
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Tuesday laid ground rules for documents and communications to be shared in a messy discovery phase of the Chapter 11 of Red River Talc, Johnson & Johnson's latest liability spinoff, while also saying he wouldn't sanction a Beasley Allen attorney who didn't appear at a deposition last week.
November 20, 2024
Beasley Allen Law Firm accused a Johnson & Johnson talc unit of using "deposition notices as weapons" in its quest to sanction a firm lawyer, while the company said the firm "refused to meaningfully subject itself or its members to any discovery" in its bankruptcy case.
November 19, 2024
Johnson & Johnson's talc unit called on a Texas bankruptcy court to sanction a Beasley Allen Law Firm attorney for "unilaterally" deciding not to attend a scheduled deposition in the company's bankruptcy case.