The record
A published Missouri Court of Appeals opinion recounts that in a 1969 memorandum J&J acknowledged its products contained tremolite asbestos and that asbestos could be dangerous, and that its scientist T.M. Thompson warned against extending tremolite-bearing talc's usage.
Claim scope
A published appellate opinion recounts documentary evidence of internal contamination knowledge dating to 1969 — twenty-three years before the August 1992 memo.
What this source does not establish
The opinion introduces this passage with 'According to Plaintiffs' evidence' — it is the court's RECITATION of the evidence viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, in the course of reviewing a punitive-damages award, NOT an independent judicial finding of fact. The page must not write 'the court found that J&J knew.' Write 'a published appellate opinion recounts that plaintiffs' evidence showed.'
Limitations
CITATION CAVEAT: the reporter citation 608 S.W.3d 663 could NOT be confirmed through CourtListener's citation index — a direct lookup at /c/sw3d/608/663/ returned HTTP 404, and cluster 4762917 has an empty citations field. The reporter cite is carried in the groundwork as quoted inside the published Third Circuit LTL Management opinion. The cluster itself is verified: case_name 'Robert Ingham v. Johnson & Johnson', court moctapp, date_filed 2020-06-23, precedential_status 'Published'. Cite the cluster URL alongside the reporter cite.
Source
Case Citation — Ingham v. Johnson & Johnson, 608 S.W.3d 663 (Mo. Ct. App. 2020)