Judge Overseeing Case At Heart Of J&J Stay Motion Denies Asbestos-Talc Transfers

Mealey's (May 13, 2019, 2:37 PM EDT) -- BUFFALO, N.Y. — Johnson & Johnson said in a May 1 reply brief that a federal judge should follow in the footsteps of a Southern District of New York colleague and stay an asbestos-talc case, but on May 9, a judge in a separate case on which the company relied in its motion denied its emergency motion seeking to use a supplier’s bankruptcy to haul state court talc cases against it into federal court (John Castro, et al. v. Colgate-Palmolive Co., et al., No. 19-279, W.D. N.Y.)....