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Litigation and Legal Update for June 2024 / Actualización de legajos de derechos civiles

Camp Lejeune Litigation – Important Deadline Coming on August 9! In 2022, Congress passed the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, which acknowledged that the water at U.S. Marine base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina was contaminated with several chemicals known to cause cancers and other illnesses. In passing the Act, the government recognized the importance of…

Civil Rights Docket Update (February 2024)

Feb 14, 2024

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Hair Relaxer Litigation The nationwide litigation effort to hold hair relaxer companies responsible for gynecologic cancers caused by their products continues. Over eight thousand women, represented by over 100 different law firms, have filed cases that have been assigned by the courts to be developed together as a Multidistrict litigation (or “MDL”) before one federal…

Civil Rights Docket Update

Jan 17, 2024

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Hair Relaxer Litigation The Hon. Mary Rowland continues to preside over the hair relaxer multi-district litigation (“MDL”) in federal court in Chicago. Over 7,900 women have filed cases in the MDL that allege they suffered gynecologic cancers caused by hair relaxers. The litigation remains in the “discovery” phase, where parties exchange information about witnesses and…

Litigation and Legal Update for June 2024 / Actualización de legajos de derechos civiles

Civil Rights Docket Update (February 2024)

Civil Rights Docket Update