Johnson & Johnson Loses Bid To Transfer State Asbestos Cases To Federal Court

Mealey's (July 22, 2019, 12:35 PM EDT) -- WILMINGTON, Del. — There is no federal jurisdiction to transfer 2,400 state court talc and asbestos actions against Johnson & Johnson to Delaware federal court based on the Chapter 11 filing of its main talc supplier, Imerys Talc America Inc., and even if there were, the court must abstain from transferring the cases “both in the interest of justice and the interest of comity with the state courts,” a federal judge held July 19 (In re:  Imerys Talc America, Inc., et al., No. 1:19-mc-00103, D. Del., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 120572)....