Supreme Court Ruling Cuts Off Avenue To Class Proceedings

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  Philly Jury Slams J&J With $120M Award In Mesh Injury Case

  By Matt Fair

  A Philadelphia jury hammered a Johnson & Johnson unit with $120 million in damages Wednesday after agreeing that...(read more)

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  Justices Say Class Arbitration Must Be Explicitly Authorized

  By Vin Gurrieri

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that arbitration agreements must explicitly call for class arbitration...(read more)

• J&J, Colgate's Talc Cancer Link 'Makes Sense,' Jury Told

  By Dorothy Atkins

  An epidemiologist hired by a dying woman who contends that Johnson & Johnson and Colgate-Palmolive's talcum products contained cancer-causing asbestos told a California jury on Wednesday it "makes sense" that asbestos exposure in the woman's teens would cause her mesothelioma decades later.

• Monsanto Appeals $78.5M Loss In First Roundup Trial

  By Emily Field

  Monsanto asked a California appeals court Tuesday to reverse a $78.5 million verdict awarded to a school groundskeeper who claimed Roundup weedkiller caused his lymphoma in the first landmark trial over the herbicide’s alleged cancer risks.

• FTC Accuses Electronic Prescription Co. Of Monopolization

  By Matthew Perlman

  The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that it has sued Surescripts in D.C. federal court over allegations that the company uses contract terms and other tactics to illegally maintain its monopoly over electronic prescription services.

• Rakoff Rejects Effort To Drag 2nd Mom Into Insider Trial

  By Pete Brush

  The former Standard & Poor's analyst who blames his mom for telling friends about a secret 2016 merger can't call another mom to testify at his insider trading trial, U.S. District Judge S. Rakoff ruled Wednesday.

• Family Wins $4.4M In Honeywell Asbestos Bowling Balls Suit

  By Mike Curley

   A Los Angeles jury has awarded a former bowling alley owner’s family $4.4 million in a suit against Honeywell after finding that asbestos supplied by the company as filler for bowling balls caused the owner’s mesothelioma and death.

• Trump's Legal End Game: Run Out The Clock Until 2020

  By Michael Macagnone

  With his latest push against congressional investigations of his finances, his response to the Russia investigation and other actions by the White House, President Donald Trump appears to be trying to run out the clock before the 2020 election rather than waging a substantive legal fight likely to prevail in court.

• Facebook Expects FTC Privacy Fine Of Up To $5B

  By Ben Kochman

  Facebook expects to be fined between $3 billion and $5 billion by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission for privacy lapses, in what would dwarf previous penalties the agency has given to technology giants, the company said Wednesday.

• Ex-Christie Aide's Bridgegate Sentence Trimmed By 5 Months

  By Jeannie O'Sullivan

  A New Jersey federal judge on Wednesday cut five months from the original 18-month sentence imposed on a onetime appointee of ex-Gov. Chris Christie for a plot to orchestrate a traffic jam at the George Washington Bridge, five months after the Third Circuit scaled back the convictions of the former aide and a co-defendant.

• Mass. Court Backs Winklevoss Twins' Escape Of $33M Suit

  By Chris Villani

  A Massachusetts appeals court on Wednesday handed a win to the Winklevoss twins, upholding the dismissal of a suit by a fellow social media software developer who said he was owed half of their $65 million Facebook settlement consisting of company stock and $20 million in cash.

• House Pushes Court To Block Trump's Border Wall Funding

  By Suzanne Monyak

  The Democrat-led U.S. House of Representatives asked a D.C. federal court Tuesday to block the Trump administration from using an emergency declaration to spend beyond what Congress appropriated to build a wall on the southern border.