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Levin Papantonio Rafferty (LPR) Attorney Chelsie Green and Attorney LaRuby May of May Jung (and LPR Of Counsel), participated in a panel discussion of hair relaxer litigation science and criteria at HarrisMartin’s MDL Conference: Hair Straightener & Social Media Litigation on Wednesday.
Mike Papantonio Sounds the Alarm: Chemical Hair Relaxer Risks Are a Public Health Issue
“This is a public health issue,” said Levin Papantonio Rafferty (LPR) Attorney and Shareholder Mike Papantonio, referring to new scientific data that links the chemicals in hair relaxer products to uterine cancer, ovarian cancer, uterine fibroids, and endometriosis.
Possible MDL for Hair Relaxer Lawsuits Could Bring Justice to Women of Color Harmed by the Products
The number of women filing hair relaxer lawsuits continues to grow, prompting the filing of a motion to centralize claims brought through federal courts in multidistrict litigation (Case MDL No. 3060) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. On November 15, 2022, a group of plaintiffs filed the motion to transfer these cases to a single court in the interest of streamlining the judicial process and ensuring similar outcomes across individual lawsuits.