On September 16, 2022, the presiding Judge in the MDL for PFAS AFFF issued a ruling denying defendants' motions to apply the government contractor defense to the MDL, which would have in effect wiped out a considerable number of cases on the MDL. The ruling brings to...
On May 24, 2022, the New York Assembly and Senate passed a bill, S.6291, that would ban the sale of any apparel in the state of New York that contain intentionally added PFAS starting on December 31, 2023. The New York fashion PFAS legislation, which must be signed...
In response to the presiding Judge's request that the parties in the PFAS AFFF MDL choose the order in which the first three cases chosen for trial in the MDL will proceed, the parties submitted a letter to the Judge informing him that the case of Stuart (FL) v. 3M,...
On September 14, 2022, CMBG3 team members Daria Afshar, David Goldman, Alex Green and Tori Paiva participated in the 12th annual golf tournament hosted by The Hartford. CMBG3 was proud to be a sponsor of the outing, as all donations and sponsorships supported the...
John Gardella's recent PFAS article entitled "PFAS Consumer Fraud Lawsuit Just the Latest...and Only the Beginning" was published on our website and the National Law Review. The article was picked up and utilized by The Fashion Law's news site in the article "A...
On Monday, September 19, 2022, Attorney Ryan Landis will present at the Prop 65 Clearinghouse conference in San Francisco, California. His panel discussion, entitled "Res Judicata...Deja Vu, All Over Again", examines a wide variety of Prop 65 related issues, including...
On September 9, 2022, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals granted interlocutory review of an enormously significant PFAS class action lawsuit filed in Ohio - Hardwick v. 3M. We previously wrote about the details of the Ohio court's decision to grant class certification...
On August 26, 2022, a PFAS consumer fraud class action lawsuit was filed in New York against Proctor & Gamble over alleged PFAS content in the Oral B brand of floss. The lawsuit is but the latest in a growing line of PFAS lawsuits that allege that certain consumer...
This week, California's Governor Newsom is expected to sign into law three major California PFAS bills, each of which will have significant impacts on businesses nationally and globally. Two of the bills would ban products from being sold in the state that contain...
Attorney Ryan Landis was invited by the Jewish Student Graduate Initiative to speak at the organization's Shabbat Dinner on September 9, 2022 in Beverly Hills. The event brings together Los Angeles area law students from eight law schools (UCLA, USC Gould, Loyola,...