As published on Legal Newsline: CLEVELAND, March 11, 2020 – Their request for some $3 billion in fees has generated fierce resistance from state attorneys general and defendants, but don’t worry about the financial states of private lawyers who represent Read more…
As published on Legal Newsline: CLEVELAND, Jan. 14 – A federal judge has ordered the nation’s leading pharmacy chains to turn over billions of nationwide prescription records going back more than 20 years – even as the American Civil Liberties Read more…
As published on Legal Newsline: NEW YORK, Dec. 9 – The flagship lawsuit of the #ExxonKnew climate litigation campaign was sent to the bottom today after a New York judge rejected all claims brought by the office of Attorney General Read more…
The lawsuit by Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey accuses ExxonMobil of making public statements that undercut the consensus scientific view on global warming.
Yost says the settlement is in danger of descending into the divisiveness that has marked the bankruptcy of Purdue Pharma, where half the states and some 2,000 municipal plaintiff support a proposed $12 billion settlement and half the states object
As published on Legal Newsline: WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Oct. 14, 2019 – The federal bankruptcy judge overseeing Purdue Pharma’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization granted the OxyContin manufacturer and its controlling Sackler family a two-week respite from opioid litigation to work Read more…
As published on Legal Newsline: CINCINNATI (Aug. 30) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has asked a federal appeals court to halt or dismiss the first two bellwether trials in opioid multidistrict litigation, in a major escalation of the long-brewing Read more…
As published on Legal Newsline: Sixteen years ago in a case involving gunmaker Sturm, Ruger & Co., a New York appeals court refused to apply public nuisance law against the manufacturer of a legal product, saying that doing so would Read more…
As reported on Legal Newsline: CLEVELAND, Aug. 14 – Soon after the first of nearly 2,000 opioid lawsuits by cities and counties flooded into his Ohio courtroom, U.S. District Judge Dan Polster laid out an ambitious plan to wrap them Read more…
The National Association of Attorneys General and Ohio AG Dave Yost have finally stated what should have been obvious from the beginning: The strategy of recruiting thousands of cities and counties as plaintiffs to sue the opioid industry is a Read more…