( March 26, 2026, 10:34 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A representative of a class action who argues that the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals properly found that a lower court relied on “an unexecuted damages model developed by an experienced economist” in granting certification of a class action mischaracterizes the case in her opposition to a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc., and the high court must address the split the decision created, J&J says in a reply brief....