
|  | | 2012 News and Press Releases | | | DISMISSAL NEWS: Judge Won't Reconsider CEO Liability For J&J Recalls Amanda Bransford
Law360 - Securities. May 22, 2012 _________________________________________________________________________
EXCERPT: A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday refused the request of Johnson & Johnson shareholders to reconsider her December decision that CEO William Weldon could not be held liable for several costly drug recalls as part of a securities suit. U.S. District Judge Freda Wolfson said that plaintiff Ronald Monk was wrong when he said she had committed a clear legal error by ruling that Weldon could not be held liable. Monk argued that the judge incorrectly ruled that Weldon would only be vicariously liable under... | | |