Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Docket Roundup: Suboxone Spike Dominates a Concentrated Day

A 103-filing surge in Suboxone Film Products Liability (3092) drove the day’s 142-entry docket, with Peiffer Wolf and Wallace Miller the leading identified filers at one case apiece. Bard Implanted Port Catheter Products Liability (3081) added 20 filings, led jointly by DV Injury Law and Roman Balaban & Associates LLC with three each, while Uber Passenger Sexual Assault (3084) brought 18 as Chaffin Luhana LLP filed 11 and Nachawati Law Group PLLC three. Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Personal Injury Products Liability (2873) rose by 16, with Krentsel & Guzman LLP accounting for 13 and Bryson Harris Suciu & DeMay PLLC two, while Zantac Products Liability (2924) logged 15 entirely through Keller Postman LLC, an intake burst that does not alter its dismissed federal merits posture. Those concentrated channels left a small roster of firms setting the immediate pace across drug, device, platform and environmental claims. See the full filing feed and firm-level breakdowns here.

Mead Johnson Wins First Federal Formula Trial

Mead Johnson won a unanimous defense verdict on Aug. 31 in Alexis Inman v. Mead Johnson, the first federal trial in Preterm Infant Nutrition Products Liability (3026). The Northern District of Illinois jury rejected claims that Enfamil formula caused a premature infant’s necrotizing enterocolitis and found the company not liable on all claims. No damages were awarded. The result gives Mead Johnson a federal bellwether outcome to use in valuing remaining cases and planning later trials, without resolving those claims on their separate evidence.

California Sends Youth-Feed Limits to Newsom

California lawmakers’ Aug. 31 passage of Assembly Bill 1709 sent proposed limits on addictive social-media features to Gov. Gavin Newsom. If signed, the measure would bar covered platforms from giving users under 16 specified features including personalized feeds and autoplay unless they can access a version without those features. It would authorize civil penalties of up to $50,000 for each knowing violation involving an affected minor and $25,000 for each negligent violation. In Social Media Adolescent Addiction Personal Injury Products Liability (3047), enactment would put a concrete statutory benchmark behind disputes over feasible youth-facing design changes, age assurance and the safeguards defendants could have deployed.