SCOTUS Should Hear $2 billion Johnson & Johnson Case

With a judgment exceeding $2 billion, may soon be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court if the justices decide to hear it.

This case is not only big but also involves core issues that the Supreme Court does have a significant interest in policing in the state courts.

The state with the runaway court in this case is Missouri.

The $2 billion case before the court involved 22 different plaintiffs, 15 of whom were out-of-state.

That appears to be precisely what happened in the mashed-together Johnson & Johnson case.

One case can't fix this problem, and much of the heavy lifting necessarily falls to Congress, not the Supreme Court.

The practice of gathering dissimilar cases in a single bundle-with out-of-state plaintiffs suing out-of-state defendants in a state-court forum, and with hefty punitive damages thrown into the mix-is just the sort of case to which the Supreme Court should give a close look.

https://www.city-journal.org/scotus-should-hear-johnson-and-johnson-case?wallit_nosession=1