Via an eagle-eyed correspondent: J&J’s bankrupt
subsidiary LTL is suing
the expert witnesses for the mesothelioma victims in the underlying tort
litigation for injurious falsehood, fraud, and Lanham Act violations for disparaging J&J’s Baby
Powder as causing mesothelioma. They allege that the experts’ published articles were part of a commercial advertising scheme to get hired as expert witnesses, which is … not super consistent with existing caselaw. Suing experts, a very normal thing to
do. Too bad there’s no federal anti-SLAPP law.

from Blogger http://tushnet.blogspot.com/2023/07/expert-witnesses-as-lanham-act.html