Today The Baltimore Sun has chosen the survivors of sexual abuse and their supporters seeking to hold the Catholic Church accountable as the 2022 Marylanders of the Year. Photographs of two of our pro bono clients, Michelle Stanton and Donna Vondenbosch, are prominently featured. We could not be prouder of them, and all of the …
President Biden Signed the PACT Act Into Law — August 10, 2022
President Biden signed the PACT Act today after Senate Republicans relented to pressure from veterans groups and activists. The Act gives Camp Lejeune victims a 2-year deadline from today to file their civil lawsuit. This means that all Camp Lejeune victims will have until August 10, 2024, to bring their claims under the Act. From …
Jenner Law Announces New Scholarship for College Students
BALTIMORE, MD, August 05, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ — Jenner Law wants to recognize a deserving college or university student with its annual Make a Difference Scholarship. The $2,500 award will go to someone who demonstrates exemplary academic performance. The recipient must also show how using his or her undergraduate or graduate school degree will help others and make the world …
The PACT Act – Passes the Senate and Poised for the President’s Signature Into Law
Great news: the Camp Lejeune Justice Act of 2022 will soon be enacted into law. Having already passed the House, the bill passed the Senate this week as part of a larger bill to help veterans exposed to toxins during the course of service. We anticipate that President Biden will sign the bill into law …
July 28, 2022 Update — 3M Subsidiary Seeks to Shield Itself From Liability
Without shame, 3M decided it shouldn’t have to defend itself in the tort system any longer. In a legal maneuver that can only be seen as yet another slap in the face to military veterans, 3M attempted to brush off its responsibility by having Aearo Technologies, its subsidiary and the original supplier of the earplugs, …
July 29, 2022 Update — 3M Attempts to Halt Litigation
On July 26, 3M announced that its Aearo Technologies subsidiary, which actually manufactured the defective earplugs, has filed for bankruptcy. Aearo is a defendant in some of the lawsuits consolidated in the MDL. Aearo Technologies filed its bankruptcy petition in bankruptcy court in Indiana; it is a separate proceeding which is not coordinated in the …
3M Ear Plug Litigation – Are 3M Shareholders Paying Attention?
This week the Wall Street Journal published an article entitled, 3M Faces Potentially Billions In Liabilities Over $7.63 Earplugs. The article chronicles the ear plug litigation against 3M in advance of the court-ordered mediation. In the first three months of 2022, 3M estimated legal fees of $63 million dollars related to the earplug lawsuit …
Zofran – Update on the Appeal — Briefs Attached
Recap of Zofran MDL By way of recap, on June 1, 2021, Judge Saylor, the federal court judge overseeing the Zofran multi-district litigation, granted the GSK’s motion for summary judgment on the issue of federal preemption. The core of Judge Saylor’s reasoning is that Judge Saylor believed that there was “clear evidence” that had GSK …