J&J Judge Defers Risperdal Penalty Ruling in South Carolina
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A South Carolina judge today deferred a decision on the penalties he will impose on a Johnson & Johnson unit for violating consumer-protection laws in a case in which the attorney general seeks billions of dollars.
Circuit Judge Roger Couch ended a two-day hearing by saying Attorney General Alan Wilson and lawyers for J&J’s Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals unit had two more weeks to file written arguments.