( October 13, 2026, 12:03 PM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — Johnson & Johnson affiliate Pecos River Talc LLC filed a docketing statement in its appeal to the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals of a federal court’s award of summary judgment to asbestos talc study authors on the affiliate’s claim for trade libel based on the authors’ representations about the evidence behind the study participants’ exposures to asbestos....