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 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 …
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 …