J&J Unit Wins Bid To Revive Talc Libel Suit With New Basis

By Carla Baranauckas ( March 2, 2026, 4:37 PM EST) -- A New Jersey federal judge has revived a bankrupt Johnson & Johnson talc subsidiary's trade libel claim over a 2020 scientific article linking asbestos in talc to mesothelioma, finding that new evidence and allegations concerning the authenticity of the author's data are enough to survive a motion to dismiss....

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