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1. Trials in Tainted Space takes the gloves off. We've gone from a planet to a galaxy, removing what little restrictions there were in regards to creature design. The first screen of Trials in Tainted Space (TiTS) is the character creation page with a selection of race options.
2. A potential juror who was dismissed during jury selection in the George Zimmerman murder trial has filed a formal complaint, saying his civil rights were violated by lead defense attorney Mark O'Mara.

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay more than $100mn to resolve over 1,000 lawsuits blaming its baby powder for causing cancer, in the first set of major settlements in four years of litigation, people with knowledge of the pacts said.
The accords, struck with several law firms, signal that the world’s largest maker of health care products is trying to get ahead of the burgeoning litigation, with some 20,000 lawsuits still pending, according to securities filings. They mark the first time Johnson & Johnson has settled the bulk of a plaintiffs lawyer’s cases in the baby powder suits, rather than individual suits on the eve of or during trial.
The deals come seven months since J&J last faced a jury reviewing evidence about the cancer risk of its signature talc product, which it maintains is safe, although it has replaced it with a cornstarch version in the US and Canada. The company used the lull, due to the pandemic, to hold settlement talks, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private.
Now that hiatus is about to end, as a trial over a factory worker’s claims of mesothelioma tied to talc is scheduled to start this month in California.
“In certain circumstances, we do choose to settle lawsuits, which is done without an admission of liability and in no way changes our position regarding the safety of our products,” Kim Montagnino, a J&J spokeswoman, said in an emailed statement. She said “scientific evidence” supports that position. “Our talc is safe, does not contain asbestos and does not cause cancer,” Montagnino said.
The settlements include cases brought by Simmons Hanly Conroy, Simon Greenstone Panatier PC and the Lanier Law Firm, according to the people.
Mark Lanier, a famed mass-torts practitioner, won a $4.7bn verdict against Johnson & Johnson in 2018, cut to $2.1bn on appeal. Lanier argued that J&J officials knew internal tests showed that asbestos, which researchers have linked to mesothelioma, tainted the powder, yet failed to disclose it for more than 40 years. The Lanier settlement doesn’t address that giant verdict, which the New Brunswick, New Jersey, company has appealed again, but it resolves almost all the law firm’s remaining ovarian cancer and mesothelioma cases against the company, the people said.
J&J settled more than 75 mesothelioma cases brought by Simmons Hanly and a similar number of such cases filed by Simon Greenstone, the people said.
Larry Nassif, a partner at Simmons Hanly, Jeffrey Simon, a partner at Simon Greenstone, and Rick Meadow, who leads Lanier’s mass-tort practice, declined to comment on the accords.
Bloomberg Intelligence estimated in July that settling all the outstanding cases could cost J&J as much as $10bn.
The company is moving to get on top of the litigation, said Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law professor who specialises in mass-tort cases.
“J&J is generally loath to settle lawsuits, so when you see this kind of push, it’s part of a strategy rather than a sign of desperation,” he said.
In keeping with that strategy, the decision to swap out the talc with the cornstarch product in North American markets creates a deadline for future talc suits and helps quantify the company’s exposure, Tobias said.
In a July securities filing, J&J said it had “established an accrual primarily for defence costs, and reserves for potential settlement of currently pending mesothelioma cases,” without specifying how much it had set aside.
In the California trial starting this month, in state court in Oakland, Rosalino Reyes III says he used the company’s baby powder for about 50 years and was diagnosed with the asbestos-linked cancer in 2019. Opening arguments by video conference are scheduled to begin October 13, lawyers say.

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First, the plane. A consensus seems to be growing – at least among the punditry — that Boeing’s next jet should be a straight-up 757 replacement: a single-aisle jet in the 200-to-240 passenger class, with a range somewhere around 5,500 nautical miles.