Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Daily Docket: Social Media Adds 63 as JPML Sets Nevro Hearing

We tracked 113 new filings. The Social Media Adolescent Addiction Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation (3047) added 63 — about 11% of its 560 trailing-30-day total — with Frantz Law Group APLC filing 39. The Uber Passenger Sexual Assault Litigation (3084) added 14, seven through Phillips & Associates Law Firm PC and six through Chaffin Luhana LLP. See the full filing feed and firm-level breakdowns here.

Virginia Tightens Richmond Airport’s PFAS Controls

Virginia regulators on Sept. 14 added PFAS monitoring and reduction conditions to Richmond International Airport’s stormwater-permit process, placing the airport’s firefighting-foam practices under a more formal compliance framework. The permit addresses discharges from three airport outfalls, but it does not impose numerical PFAS concentration limits or specific reduction targets. A separate Virginia law requires the airport commission to submit its PFAS-firefighting-material phaseout plan by the Nov. 15, 2026 deadline and discontinue those materials by Jan. 1, 2030. For Aqueous Film-Forming Foams Personal Injury Products Liability Litigation (2873), the action adds a current regulatory record on the practical shift away from AFFF while leaving the adequacy of nonnumeric pollution controls contested.

Cartiva Leadership Order Forces October Position Statements

The court’s initial management order in Cartiva Synthetic Cartilage Implant Product Liability Litigation (3172) requires the parties to file position statements by Oct. 1, creating the proceeding’s first near-term test of the issues that will organize coordinated discovery and motion practice. The order installed Alex C. Davis of Alex Davis Law Office PSC and Randi Kassan of Milberg PLLC as plaintiffs’ co-leads, with Duane Morris attorneys Dana Ash and Sean Burke serving as defense co-leads. A telephone status hearing follows on Oct. 8 at 1:30 p.m. CT, giving the court an early checkpoint on whether the new leadership structure can narrow the parties’ immediate disputes. Those deadlines move the implant claims from initial organization toward a defined case-management record without resolving any merits issue.