To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On March 2, 2021, Johnson & Johnson (J&J) filed a petition with the Supreme Court of the United States in a final attempt to appeal one of the largest product liability verdicts ever in the United States. In the past decade, over 20,000 plaintiffs have filed suit against J&J claiming that the company's talcum powder caused ovarian cancer or mesothelioma. Almost all of the cases against the New Jersey-headquartered company have been brought in New Jersey, California, and Missouri, with St. Louis County being an especially fertile ground for