Welcome to Law.com Class Actions: Critical Mass, a weekly briefing for class action and mass tort attorneys.

This week: The first talc verdicts since Johnson & Johnson’s failed bankruptcies came out on April 19: A defense win and a $45 million award. Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice’s failed case to thwart a merger between two sugar producers, antitrust lawyers are filing class actions. Find out who was appointed to lead lawsuits over decongestants like Sudafed PE and Tylenol Cold & Flu.