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Hair relaxer cancer claims

Scheduling posture in MDL-3060 (N.D. Ill., Judge Mary Rowland): the court took direct control of bellwether selection (April 2026), scrapping the party alternating-picks system; bellwether fact discovery closed June 10, 2026; case-specific Daubert and summary judgment motions due Nov 16, 2026; first trials broadly expected 2027.

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Scheduling posture in MDL-3060 (N.D. Ill., Judge Mary Rowland): the court took direct control of bellwether selection (April 2026), scrapping the party alternating-picks system; bellwether fact discovery closed June 10, 2026; case-specific Daubert and summary judgment motions due Nov 16, 2026; first trials broadly expected 2027. 11,877 cases pending as of July 1, 2026 (fourth-largest MDL). No verdicts or settlements yet. CAVEAT: documented only via litigation-tracker blogs (llamalab.ai, mdlupdate.com) — last-resort sources, no court record or major-press confirmation fetched.

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