The Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News is a major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area, with over 400,000 daily subscribers. It was founded on October 1, 1885, by Alfred Horatio Belo as a satellite publication of the Galveston Daily News, of Galveston, Texas. Today it has one of the 20 largest paid circulations in the United States. Throughout the 1990s and as recently as 2010, the paper has won numerous Pulitzer Prizes for reporting and photography, George Polk Awards for education reporting and regional reporting, and an Overseas Press Club award for photography. The company has its headquarters in Downtown Dallas.
A Houston bankruptcy judge has rejected Johnson & Johnson’s to use federal bankruptcy procedures to force a settlement with 90,000 women — including 2,558 of them in Texas and 465 in the DFW area — who have sued the pharmaceutical giant for making and selling a toxic baby powder that they claim caused their ovarian and other gynecological cancers. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez said J&J’s plan to forge a $9 billion settlement with the victims was a legally legitimate attempt but was filled with substantive, uncurable flaws, including an unnecessarily...