Sometime around 1911, George Deskin opened a lunchroom in Moberly about a block from the railroad yards that made the north Missouri community a prosperous place.
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Today in Missouri, an estimated 14,000 video machines offering prizes of hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars are drawing customers in convenience stores, laundromats and fraternal lodges.
In May 2020, Johnson & Johnson announced it would discontinue sales of its talc-based baby powder in the US and Canada. The company said it remains steadfastly confident in the safety of talc-based Johnson s Baby Powder, but said that demand had dropped off in the wake of the lawsuits.
Lawsuits have been primarily filed in state courts in Missouri, New Jersey, and California, alongside some outside of the US, Johnson & Johnson said in the SEC filing.
The majority of cases are pending in federal court, organized into a multi-district litigation in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, it said.