( November 13, 2026, 11:24 AM EST) -- CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois issued a second ruling on Nov. 12 on a May motion to exclude consumers’ experts in a multidistrict litigation in which those consumers allege wrongful death and other injuries from endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in chemical hair relaxers XE "chemical hair relaxers" (CHRs), granting the exclusion of two experts and denying the exclusion of four others....