The New England Journal of Medicine is contesting a judge’s order requiring it to turn over information to plaintiffs lawyers in mass litigation over a pelvic mesh product made by Ethicon, a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary.

The Journal on April 18 asked Superior Court Justice Diane Kottmyer in Woburn, Mass., to reconsider her April 9 refusal to quash subpoenas for communications between its editors and the author of an article about a scientific study of Ethicon’s Prolift mesh system.