By Sheila Dang and Jonathan Stempel CARTHAGE, Texas (Reuters) -A Texas state judge said she won’t block Kenvue from paying its scheduled $398 million shareholder dividend on November 26, rejecting a request by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Kenvue lawyer told Reuters on Friday. Paxton, a Republican who is running for a U.S. Senate […]
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Texas judge in Tylenol case won’t block Kenvue from paying dividend, lawyer says
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By Sheila Dang and Jonathan Stempel
CARTHAGE, Texas (Reuters) -A Texas state judge said she won’t block Kenvue from paying its scheduled $398 million shareholder dividend on November 26, rejecting a request by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Kenvue lawyer told Reuters on Friday.
Paxton, a Republican who is running for a U.S. Senate seat in 2026, sued the U.S. consumer health company on October 28, accusing it of concealing the risks to children when pregnant women use the popular medication.
The lawsuit was filed five weeks after Republican President Donald Trump and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. repeated the scientifically unproven claim that using Tylenol during pregnancy can cause autism.
In September, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration told doctors to alert patients to what it said was growing evidence linking Tylenol use during pregnancy to autism. Medical societies dispute a Tylenol link to autism.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel and Sheila Dang; Additional reporting by Patrick Wingrove in New York and Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware; Editing by Noeleen Walder, Bill Berkrot and Paul Simao)