New Mexico Supreme Court: AG Must Disclose Agency Documents In Talc Suit

( October 24, 2024, 1:46 PM EDT) -- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The attorney general’s office’s broad powers imbue it with the prelitigation duty to review nonparty agency documents before determining whether to bring suit, and logic and notions of fair play require making those same types of documents available to Johnson & Johnson in its defense of talc-related marketing claims, the New Mexico Supreme Court said in what it called a narrow issue of first impression....