Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys.
This week: Bayer moved to wipe out a $2 billion Roundup verdict in Georgia, in part blaming the plaintiffs’ team at Arnold & Itkin for unprofessional behavior during the trial. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the closely watched case Laboratory Corporation of America v. Davis, but the class action question appeared complicated by procedural issues. Find out who was appointed special master to handle settlement talks in the hair relaxer multidistrict litigation.