Defendants in Delaware’s Zantac litigation have asked the state Supreme Court to review a Superior Court ruling that allowed testimony from plaintiffs’ experts, by claiming that the decision placed the state’s Daubert standards at odds with those of federal courts and previous decisions in the jurisdiction. GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Sanofi and Boehringer…

Plaintiffs lawyers in the talcum powder litigation escalated their attack on Johnson & Johnson, moving on Tuesday to prevent a planned third bankruptcy from being filed outside New Jersey, where two prior Chapter 11 cases were dismissed. The motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction comes in a…

U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger of the District of New Jersey took the witness stand Wednesday afternoon in the bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-New Jersey, telling jurors that Menendez urged him to “look…carefully” at the office’s investigation into one of the men now on trial alongside Menendez. Sellinger…

Social media companies clinched a victory in a flood of ongoing California lawsuits that accuse them of fueling mental illness and addiction in adolescents. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl sustained the defendants’ demurrer in four January complaints filed by California, Florida, Rhode Island and Washington school districts.

The founder of electric truck maker Nikola, convicted last year of defrauding investors about his company’s technology, now is suing his legal chief and other insiders, saying they praised him for aggressively promoting the company before turning on him when scrutiny of the business increased. Trevor Milton, who in December was sentenced to…

Gov. Greg Abbott selected an appellate justice, a district court judge and a law firm’s senior partner to be the first three judges to preside over the new Fifteenth District Court of Appeals. A creation of the 2023 Texas Legislature, the court is to convene Sept. 1 and take over…