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June 01, 2026
Fifth Circuit judges Monday questioned whether challengers to a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule that addresses chrysotile asbestos, the only known form of the carcinogen still used and imported in the country, have a legal right to sue over their alleged injuries.
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June 01, 2026
As providers of controlled substances, pharmacy giants Albertsons and Safeway had legal duties to prevent the diversion of opioid drugs, a Washington state judge ruled on Monday, though whether the companies failed to fulfill those duties will be determined at trial.
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June 01, 2026
A University of California San Diego gynecologic oncologist told a California jury Monday in a bellwether trial over claims that Johnson & Johnson's talc products caused three women's deadly ovarian cancer that women and girls "wouldn't be alive" if talc could easily migrate to the ovaries because they'd be dying from sepsis.
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June 01, 2026
A New Jersey man said in a suit filed in Garden State federal court on Friday that Abbott Laboratories' spinal cord stimulator system was manufactured with defects that were never truly resolved because of Abbott's mischaracterization of the issue, which caused him painful electric shocks.
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June 01, 2026
A Georgia appellate panel on Monday affirmed a trial judge's decision to grant a new trial in a suit alleging Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder caused a woman's fatal cancer, saying the defense verdict was not supported by sufficient evidence.
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