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In RE: Hair Relaxer Marketing, Sales Practices, And Products Liability Litigation

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Case Number:

1:23-cv-00818

Court:

Illinois Northern

Nature of Suit:

367 Personal Injury: Health Care/Pharmaceutical Personal Injury Product Liability

Multi Party Litigation:

Class Action

Judge:

Honorable Mary M. Rowland

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  1. June 23, 2025

    Walgreens Tossed From L'Oreal Hair Relaxer Cancer MDL

    An Illinois federal judge has thrown out the lone complaint naming Walgreen Co. as a defendant in multidistrict litigation against L'Oréal USA Inc. alleging that it made, and that retailers sold, hair relaxer products that could cause cancer.

  2. May 08, 2025

    Judge Says No French Connection In L'Oreal Hair Relaxer MDL

    An Illinois federal judge has dismissed L'Oréal USA Inc.'s French parent company from multidistrict litigation alleging it and other companies' hair relaxer products can cause health problems, finding the company doesn't have sufficient connections to the U.S. for the court to have jurisdiction.

  3. November 13, 2023

    L'Oreal, Revlon Can't Escape Hair Relaxer-Cancer Link MDL

    Consumers who allege L'Oreal, Revlon and other companies' hair relaxers — which are primarily marketed to Black women — cause breast, uterine and other cancers can pursue most of their consolidated claims, an Illinois federal judge ruled Monday.

  4. March 03, 2023

    Co-Counsel Named In L'Oreal Hair Relaxer MDL

    An Illinois federal judge on Thursday tapped Ben Crump Law Firm, Motley Rice LLC, DiCello Levitt and Douglas & London attorneys as plaintiffs' leadership in consolidated litigation alleging that L'Oreal and other companies made hair relaxers — largely marketed to Black women — linked to breast, uterine and other cancers.