( October 27, 2026, 9:11 AM EDT) -- CHICAGO — In a pair of rulings in a multidistrict litigation in which consumers allege wrongful death and other injuries from endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in chemical hair relaxers (CHRs), a federal judge in Illinois stated that the parties agreed on the final five bellwether cases and, addressing a motion to exclude the 10 general causation experts, partly denied the motion as to two of the experts presented by the consumers....