PANOLA COUNTY, Texas — A judge won’t block the maker of Tylenol from distributing $400 million of dividends to its shareholders amid Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton‘s lawsuit against the company.

Kenvue, the company that makes Tylenol, will proceed with issuing the payment on Nov. 26, according to reporting from Reuters. “That is a distribution that’s being made as part of the normal course of business,” the lawyer for Kenvue told Reuters.

The lawyer also said Texas has “no jurisdiction” to block Kenvue’s dividend, since the company is based in New Jersey and incorporated in Delaware.

The state of Texas last month sued Kenvue, claiming it failed to inform consumers about the risk of having a child with autism if they took the medication while pregnant. Major medical associations said

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