J&J To Federal Talc MDL: State Disqualification Ruling Wrong

(July 29, 2024, 1:36 PM EDT) -- TRENTON, N.J. — The federal multidistrict talc litigation court should adopt a state court judge’s opinion declining to disqualify plaintiffs’ lawyers, Johnson & Johnson tells the court in briefing, because that ruling for the first time upturns the presumption that the flow of privileged information goes both directions when parties share confidences and ignores evidence suggesting that such sharing occurred in this case....