( October 2, 2026, 8:29 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a petition for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc filed by Mead Johnson & Company LLC, Mead Johnson Nutrition Co. and Abbott Laboratories after the appellate panel reversed an order denying remand of five Pennsylvania cases that had been removed and joined with hundreds of others in a multidistrict litigation alleging that certain cow’s milk-based infant formula caused premature infants to develop necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC)....