The New Jersey Supreme Court has denied Beasley Allen’s appeal to let the firm back into the massive Johnson & Johnson talc litigation in state court, letting stand the firm’s novel ethics breach disqualification.
The ruling, docketed Friday but signed by Chief Justice Stuart Rabner Monday, shuts Beasley Allen out of hundreds of cases in the state’s multicounty litigation process against J&J in litigation alleging the company’s talc products are responsible for causing ovarian cancer.
The order also dampens the Alabama-based firm’s ability to fight against a similar disqualification in the broader federal multidistrict litigation in New Jersey, where ...
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