Talcum Powder PSC Backs Efforts to Conduct Depositions on Missing, Misplaced Talc Samples

TRENTON, N.J. –– The plaintiffs’ steering committee involving in the talcum powder MDL docket have filed a reply brief supporting their position that they should be permitted to conduct depositions relating to the location of talc samples, saying that the Special Master did not have access to all of the information when making his decision.

In a reply brief filed June 14 in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the plaintiffs’ steering committee backed its initial objections to an order in which the Special Master assigned to the national coordinated multidistrict litigation docket for talcum powder …